A generation of Tibetan writers, many working in English, are laying claim to the voice of exile and pushing back against the fetishisation of Tibet by the West
Like most Tibetans born and brought up in exile, I grew up, in India, with a certain idea of my homeland, one that was informed by two extreme but inseparable
Nearly 600 delegates of exile Tibetans decided to follow the Dalai Lama's long-held moderate approach of the Middle Way after a week-long 'special meeting' that concluded
Despite plenty of false starts, it finally happened: the trading pass of Nathula was reopened after four decades. Congratulations are in order. Let us now have some trade.
Have you noticed? The gun-toting Osama bin Laden has pushed the peaceable Dalai Lama into deep background. The 'Tibet cause' is presently in the doldrums as, next door,
The flight of Urgyen Trinley Dorje in early January from the Tsurphu monastery outside Lhasa, dodging Chinese border guards and braving the icy Himalayan winter was nothing short of miraculous.
Tibet is being cloned in a tiny part of South India
A strong winter noonday sun, a disciplined sea of bowing monks in red, and policemen everywhere. Then amidst the
Dharamsala had it coming, obviously. The swing of the media pendulum is vicious and whatever is lionised gets trashed, sooner or later. With the surfeit of Hollywood productions and personalities
Tibet: The Road Ahead
by Dawa Norbu Harper Collins Publishers India, New
Delhi, 1997 INR 395, pp 378, ISBN 81 7223 238 1
Contemporary books about pre-1950 Tibet tend to
