On September 22, Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay of Bhutan stood at the podium at the United Nations General Assembly and made a direct sales pitch to foreign investors. “I stand before you today not as a prime minister, but as a salesman,” he told world leaders,
openly seekingforeign investments to advance the concept of the
Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC).
For Chet Nath Timsina, Tobgay’s speech was deeply personal. Timsina was 20 when he and his family were evicted from southern Bhutan in the early 1990s after being
coerced into signing a “voluntary migration form.” He resettled in New York in 2009 and has called the state home ever since.
