India, Aug. 22 -- Driving into Thimphu for Bhutan Echoes; Drukyul's Literature and Arts Festival, it's apparent that the city has grown quite a bit since you last visited in the pre-pandemic era. There are many more buildings and vehicles, and more people too in the streets. Thankfully, they are all still as nice as ever. For a traveller from gritty NCR, the politeness and good humour is almost as shocking and the dazzling white clouds rumbling in a deep blue sky. At the Royal Bhutan University campus where the three-day event that kicked off on 2 August was held, the traditional jester is wandering around getting up to mischief as he does ever year; only this time, there's no sign of his regular prop, a large well carved wooden penis tha...