Tag Archives: India

  • Claude Arpi China’s top two obsessions — loyalty and Party 26 July 2012 | Claude Arpi This post has no comments yet

    China has had two obsessions: stability and loyalty to the Party. When Beijing's State machinery starts hammering a certain issue on the masses, it usually means that the leadership has a serious predicament. ...

  • Indo-Tibetans of Kashmir 23 July 2012 This post has no comments yet

    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. ...

  • Dalai Lama visits Kashmir, a disputed land like Tibet 18 July 2012 | Zahid Rafiq This post has no comments yet

    After a gap of 24 years, the Dalai Lama is visiting the Kashmir Valley – a region, as with the Tibetan spiritual leader's homeland, where many yearn for independence. ...

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

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

  • Ajai Shukla Batting for the McMahon Line 11 July 2012 | Ajai Shukla This post has no comments yet

    Having already given away Hong Kong and forsaken Taiwan with a one-China policy, the British hand was left with Tibet as the lone card that mattered desperately to Beijing. But London gifted it away. ...

  • Proposal for transferring CTSA schools to CTA 7 July 2012 | Alok Verma, Director This post has no comments yet

    Circular from India Department of Education: Proposal for transferring the schools managed by Central Tibetan Schools Administration (CTSA) to the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) ...

  • Dibyesh Anand India’s Tibet problem 19 June 2012 | Dibyesh Anand This post has no comments yet

    India should not forget that Chinese-controlled Tibet is its neighbour. The current Indian leadership's ignorance of Tibetans goes against principles of justice, humanity and ignores historic Indo-Tibetan relations. ...

  • Hissay P Bhutia Burning soul – A struggle for freedom 31 March 2012 | Hissay P Bhutia This post has no comments yet

    Let us not ignore the fact that Jamphel Yeshi did not burn only himself: what burned is the agony of every Tibetan. ...

  • An Irishman’s Diary 17 March 2012 | Michael Parsons This post has no comments yet

    Who knew that the "Abominable Snowman" – one of the most enduring myths of the last century – had an Offaly connection? ...

  • The Tibetans who fought the 1971 war 10 January 2012 | Claude Arpi This post has no comments yet

    Now 84, Ratuk Ngawang tells Claude Arpi about the role the secret Tibetan regiment, known as the Special Frontier Forces, played in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. ...