Bhutan to Blacktown: Losing everything and finding Australia

by James Button and Om Dhungel

I lost my possessions, my salary, my status, my career, my country. And in that fall, I gained everything.

Bhutan is known as the land of Gross National Happiness, a Buddhist Shangri-la hidden in the Himalayas. But in the late 1980s, Bhutan waged a brutal ethnic-cleansing campaign against its citizens of Nepali ancestry, including Om Dhungel and his family.

Bhutan to Blacktown tells Om Dhungel's remarkable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1742237894
• ISBN13: 9781742237893
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Newsouth Pub.
• Length: 288 Pages