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Tilak Niroula

Born in Taklai block in Sarbang Bhutan in October 1989, Niroula started and completed his primary schooling from Blooming Lotus English School, a school funded by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and managed by the Caritas Nepal inside refugee camp in Nepal.

He obtained his higher secondary education from Kumudini Homes High Secondary School from Kalimpong, India in 2008. In the same year, Niroula returned to Nepal for pursing his higher educations and holds a Bachelor degree in Mass Communication and Public Relation from Tribhuvan University (TU), Nepal. He continued his studies and had a job as a School Counselor in Camp Schools. Currently, his is under Bachelor degree in Southern New Hampshire University base in New Hampshire, USA. He is also a founding member of the Social Welfare Committee, a reputed organization in Jhapa and Morang, Nepal.

As a Bhutanese refugee journalist, he has extensively written on the Bhutanese refugee concerns for long time and covered major proceedings associated with the Bhutanese refugee issue in national and international portals. He still writes for the papers off and on. He has also facilitated a number of Media trainning for emerging reporters in the Bhutanese refugee camps. In 2012, he edited ‘The Refugee Herald’ monthly, published and circulated within the refugee camps and also a program presenter at the weekly radio program ‘Saranarthi Sarokar’ broadcast from Nepal FM Network 90.1 base in Kathmandu Nepal. Recently, he is been volunteering as a News Coordinator of the Bhutan News Service (BNS) a first news agency of Bhutan.

He is also recognized as a energetic community worker in the Bhutanese community. Having resettled in New Hampshire in June 2013, Niroula is been working as a Media and Communication Manager in Bhutanese Community of New Hampshire a young and vibrant ethnic community-based 501© (3) non-profit organization in United States. He initiated ‘Hamro Aawaz’ a popular Nepali show from Concord TV Channel 22 base in New Hampshire. ‘Hamro Aawaz’ is a show to raise awareness about the challenges faced by the Bhutanese community in diaspora. For displaced Bhutanese, the show is a guide to navigating their new homes. Public came to see the benefit and the beauty of television show as a way to communicate with people, especially people who have literacy issues or for whom visual communication is more accessible than the printed word. Program production crew wanted a way to communicate with Nepali speakers who could not read or write the language but can watch and understand the way they share. Program “Hamro Aawaz” (Our Voice) airs on public access Channel 22 several times a week, but the videos are always available to stream on ConcordTV’s website, Bhutanese Community of New Hampshire website, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, Bhutanese Google Groups, News sites and in different social networking sites. Niroula was honored with ‘Premiere Production Award 2013-2014’ by Concord TV. He is also editing ‘The Community Voice’ a mouthpiece newsletter of Bhutanese Community of New Hampshire.