Category Archives: Features

• Nepal’s ‘first’ global film star scrapes a living 1 October 2012 | Frankie Taggart no comments

  Lundup plays Tinle, an irascible elderly chieftain of a yak-herding and farming village in a power struggle with Karma, a hot-headed upstart who would like to take his place. ...

• Richard Gere in “Arbitrage”: Morality and money 30 September 2012 | Tashi Wangchuk no comments

  Although money wins in this film, it is morality that triumphs ultimately. ...

• Tibet needs entrepreneurs like the Tatas and Rockefellers 21 September 2012 | Robert Olsen no comments

  "We need Tibetan industrialists like the Tatas and Rockefellers," says Investment banker Tsewang Namgyal. ...

• Dalai Lama inspires Preity Zinta to work 11 August 2012 | Prashant Singh one comment

  Preity Zinta is set to hit the big screen again with her maiden production venture, "Ishkq In Paris" (IIP). ...

• Indo-Tibetans of Kashmir 23 July 2012 no comments

  The Tibetan Muslims living in Kashmir are now a mixed identity. They were ecstatic at seeing the Dalai Lama, their king, visit them in Srinagar recently. ...

• Drapchi: A Tibetan opera singer’s odyssey 16 July 2012 | Zafri Mudasser Nofil no comments

  Indie filmmaker Arvind Iyer's new venture "Drapchi" traces the journey of a Tibetan opera singer. ...

• Immigrants chasing their business dreams 15 June 2012 | Allie Shah no comments

  More than one in six small-business owners in the United States is an immigrant, according to a report released Thursday by the New York-based Fiscal Policy Institute's Immigration Research Initiative. ...

• Retired doctor’s family to meet Dalai Lama 12 June 2012 no comments

  A foot-long bone whistle, among other souvenirs from the roof of the world gathered during the British Expedition to Tibet of 1904, is to be finally returned home when Tibet's Dalai Lama visits Scotland. ...

• The union between Adam Yauch and Dechen Wangdu: a look back 5 May 2012 no comments

  Dechen Wangdu, an American-born activist, has devoted her life to the cause of Tibetan liberation from China. When she met Yauch, the two joined forces to fight against injustice together. ...

• Lhamo Tso brings fight for husband’s freedom to Auburn 8 April 2012 | Krissi Khokhobashvili no comments

  Lhamo Tso has not seen, or even spoken to, her husband in five years. She has spent years campaigning for the release of Dhondup Wangchen. ...