Three leaders from Israel, Egypt and US with three different religions, had marathon meeting for 13 days at the presidential retreat at Camp David in the autumn of 1978 to solve a dispute that religion itself had caused. The complex history of Middle East is based on ancient texts and legends and necessarily draws the Middle East in a endless feud and brought the superpowers of the time to the brink of nuclear war, flooded the region with refugees and created mayhem and heartbreak all over the world. Carter, Begin and Sadat, the three leaders from US, Israel and Egypt, through 13 days of ordeal and immense pressure, managed to forge a partial and incomplete peace. War seldom achieves what was expected or hoped for by its participants; even victory breeds a future defeat. The book tells the story of the compromise that peace demands, and of the courage and sacrifices required of leaders whose greatest challenge is to overcome their own limitations. The book gave me new perspec
When one of the FCB staff told me that the management had called staff meeting asking them not to write anything in bhutanliterature.blogspot.com, I had a mixed feeling of both sadness and happiness. I was sad because people would be left in darkness if the people no longer commented and the suppression of any unethical would be taken to new heights. The comments passed on by many staff in my blog updated staff and others across the world about what was happening in FCB and how staff digested it. In absence of grievance redressal or whistleblower policy in FCB, the erstwhile FCB management was on wild elephant rampage, and as a result, the staff had no choice but to vent their frustrations through my blog. They needed a channel to pass on the message to the management that not all things are tolerated and the world outside needed to know that something was not going right in FCB. I think their messages, even if it was in its crudest form and language, have been delivered and rem