Category Archives: Features

• Mountains to Manhattan: A Tibetan journey 21 December 2017 | Lobsang Wangyal no comments

  It is amply clear that a free Tibet would be good for India, and the book Mountains to Manhattan will help spread that understanding. Well done Pinakie Kansabanik. ...

• What’s left behind: Review of Two More Years 20 November 2017 | Mark Austin no comments

  Leave your occupied country and family, for a chance at a better life. Know that in doing so you will see neither again for many years -- if ever. Or stay, a prisoner in your own land. ...

• Remembering a true son of Tibet – Tashi Namgyal 9 November 2017 | Chime Tenzing 4 comments

  What my brother wanted to demonstrate by sacrificing his own life is — to appeal the the world and to the UN to help our people and support our struggle. ...

• They walk in beauty: A peek at India’s lesser-known pageants 10 September 2017 | Roshni Nair no comments

  Did you know there was a Mr & Miss Wheelchair India, a Mrs India Home Makers, and a Miss Himalaya? Meet the winners and organisers of beauty contests you didn’t know existed. ...

• Flame of Hope: A film review 23 August 2017 | Tashi Wangchuk no comments

  Flame of Hope is a story of a Tibetan family in the face of the ongoing self-sacrifices, and it does not delve into the psyches of the self-immolators. ...

• Far from Doklam, a second India-China battle of claims is on — over Tibet’s medicine 20 August 2017 | Divya A no comments

  In April, India sent Sowa-Rigpa as its official entry for UNESCO’s prestigious Intangible Cultural Heritage list. The problem was Beijing also had sent an entry claiming Sowa-Rigpa. ...

• Did the Dalai Lama prefer exile in Myanmar to India? 15 July 2017 | Bertil Lintner one comment

  That is what the Tibetan God King told Asia Times contributor Bertil Lintner in a 1984 interview during ceremonies marking his then 25th year in exile ...

• Sixty years after fleeing Tibet, refugees in India get passports, not property 22 June 2017 | Abhishek Madhukar and Rina Chandran no comments

  "Tibetans will fight on for Free Tibet, but at the same time we have to live our lives now." ...

• Tsering Dorjee Wangkhang: One of first Tibetans in Canada 19 April 2017 | Lobsang Wangyal no comments

  This documentary could have been a story of sadness, but it is a story of people who survived and thrived. ...

• Nazi chief’s drunken expedition to discover Aryan roots in Tibet 4 April 2017 | Allan Hall no comments

  Instead of sticking to the brief of finding the 'super-race', the drunken SS soldiers killed thousands of animals on an expedition to Tibet in 1939. ...