Written with Walkley Award-winning journalist James Button, Bhutan to Blacktown is a story of grit and struggle, humour and irrepressible optimism — and how losing nearly everything shaped one man’s character and fate.
"Bhutan Behind the Curtain' by Balaraam Poudyal, a vivid confluence of history and memoir, brings to the surface the long-concealed secrets of Bhutan's past. With narrative integrity and factual precision, the work documents Bhutan's political and social history as a modern state - tracing the arrival and settlement of the Nepali-speaking community and the role they played in the country's development, security and administration. It also lays bare the chasm between the romanticized myths often heard about Bhutan and the lived realities of its persecuted citizens.
