Category Archives: Opinions

• Overlooking Chinese threat, Dalai Lama arrives in Tawang 8 April 2017 | Nava Thakuria 4 comments

  After a long journey, the Dalai Lama reached Tawang, which houses the second largest Buddhist monastery in the world after the Potala palace in Lhasa of Tibet. ...

• Nehru’s cowardice, Modi’s courage: Should India now say Tibet is not part of China? 5 April 2017 | Ugyen Gyalpo 7 comments

  This one shift on India's policy towards China on Tibet's status would open the floodgates on the Tibet support fronts. ...

• The Dalai Lama is the darling of India: Let it be told to China 31 March 2017 | NS Venkataraman 9 comments

  Many Indians think of the Dalai Lama as one of their own, even though he is a Tibetan by birth. ...

• Powerful women in the history of Tibet 12 March 2017 | Laden Tshering Samdup 3 comments

  The first Tibetans–in-exile survived mainly due to their women, who were running small businesses and raising their children, from the pavements of New Delhi to the remoteness of Orissa. ...

• Commemorating Tibetan Uprising Day in the face of our political differences 7 March 2017 | Ugyen Gyalpo 2 comments

  It will be ours to rejoice in genuine freedom at last -- given our fire of freedom is still alight and burning like it is today! ...

• Need to resist China’s uncivilised expansionist policies 5 March 2017 | NS Venkataraman 2 comments

  Many nations shout from the rooftops about the causes of liberty and freedom, but maintain a thunderous silence as far as the issue of China’s aggression in Tibet is concerned. ...

• Bob Dylan and the Tibetans 27 February 2017 | Laden Tshering Samdup 6 comments

  Now would have been an appropriate time for the Nobel Academy to give cognizance to Tibetan literature, and to attempt to protect it from the machinations of the Chinese. ...

• The sour holes in the Swiss cheese 24 February 2017 | Ugyen Gyalpo one comment

  By changing their policy towards Tibetan as nationality, Switzerland is now poked with just as many holes as their famed Swiss cheese -- black holes of immorality. ...

• Evolving Tibetan community in North America: Challenges and opportunities 22 February 2017 | Tenzin Tsedup no comments

  Tibetan Associations and Cultural Centres are central to the preservation of our cultural heritage including identity and language. ...

• Anguished Fear: Refugee in Trumped America 4 February 2017 | Ugyen Gyalpo one comment

  To close the door to refugees, who are collecting every bit of courage to rise from the ashes of destruction, is contradictory to the humanitarian values that this country upholds. ...