Bhutan to Blacktown: Losing everything and finding Australia by Om Dhungel Paper

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Bhutan to Blacktown

by Om Dhungel, James Button

Written with Walkley Award-winning journalist James Button, Bhutan to Blacktown tells of Om Dhungel's remarkable journey from a village on the Himalayan ridges and life as a refugee in Kathmandu, to, eventually, Blacktown, Australia. It is a story of grit and determination, humour and irrepressible optimism.

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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 story — his journey from a remote village to a senior position in the Bhutanese Civil Service, to life as a human rights activist in Nepal and, eventually, to his work as a community leader in Blacktown, western Sydney. Every step prepared Om for the central role he would play in settling more than 5000 Bhutanese refugees, in one of the most successful refugee initiatives in Australia's history.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.'What you hold in your hands is a great Australian story.' — Foreword by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese'A heartbreaking story of exile, with a stirring Australian ending.' — George Megalogenis'Om Dhungel's journey of the heart and soul, from the fields of southern Bhutan to the streets of Blacktown, Sydney, is a journey from which we can all learn, regardless of our origins.' — Michael Hutt, Professor of Nepali and Himalayan Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London'Om's optimism and tenacity helped him travel the harrowing path of a stateless person to build a new life for himself and his community. By telling his inspirational story and shedding light on the resettlement experience of Bhutanese refugees in Australia, Om brings the issue of refugees and the conditions for their successful integration in their new countries to a wider audience.' — Bhim Subba, author of Himalayan waters and former Director General of the Department of Power in the Government of Bhutan

Author Biography

Om Dhungel arrived in Australia as a student in 1998 before being granted a refugee visa in light of the Bhutanese Government's persecution of the ethnic Nepalese of southern Bhutan. As inaugural president of the Association of Bhutanese in Australia, Om played a critical role in the settlement of 5000 Bhutanese refugees in Australia. Before coming to Australia he was a senior civil servant in Bhutan's Department of Telecommunications, then, while a refugee in Nepal, general secretary of the Human Rights Organisation of Bhutan and co-editor of The Bhutan Review. In Australia he worked for ten years as a business analyst at Telstra, and today sits on the NSW Ministry of Health Advisory Committee, the NSW Police Multicultural Advisory Council, the Blacktown Multicultural Advisory Committee. He runs Om Dhungel Consulting.

James Button is a former journalist and Europe correspondent for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald. He is the author of Speechless: A year in my father's business and Comeback: The fall and rise of Geelong, and has won three Walkley awards and a Melbourne Press Club Quill for feature writing. He is a freelance writer and editor.

Review

Om Dhungel's journey of the heart and soul, from the fields of southern Bhutan to the streets of Blacktown, Sydney, is a journey from which we can all learn, regardless of our origins." —Michael Hutt, Professor of Nepali and Himalayan Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

"Om's optimism and tenacity helped him travel the harrowing path of a stateless person to build a new life for himself and his community. By telling his inspirational story and shedding light on the resettlement experience of Bhutanese refugees in Australia, Om brings the issue of refugees and the conditions for their successful integration in their new countries to a wider audience."" - Bhim Subba, author of Himalayan waters and former Director General of the Department of Power in the Government of Bhutan

Details ISBN1742237894 Author James Button Publisher NewSouth Publishing Format Paperback Pages 288 Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781742237893 Publication Date 2023-05-01 Imprint NewSouth Publishing Subtitle Losing everything and finding Australia Place of Publication Sydney, NSW Country of Publication Australia NZ Release Date 2023-05-01 ISBN-10 1742237894 UK Release Date 2023-05-01 DEWEY 305.906914 Audience General AU Release Date 2023-05-01

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