Tag Archives: Society

• First openly transgender Tibetan and LGBT icon Tenzin Mariko 5 September 2020 | Natasha Khullar Relph This post has no comments yet

  India-based former Buddhist monk Tenzin Mariko is now a model, dancer, make-up artist and Instagram star after coming out in 2015. Once ostracised, today she is recognised and supported by the two biggest exile Tibetan organisations. ...

• Clashes at US protest over police shooting of black man 25 August 2020 | Robert Chiarito This post has one comment

  Police fired tear gas on Monday when a protest demanding racial justice in the city of Kenosha in Wisconsin turned violent, as rage builds once more in the US at the shooting of a black man by a white officer. ...

• PM Modi to attend temple groundbreaking at disputed site 26 July 2020 | Emily Schmall This post has 3 comments

  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend a groundbreaking ceremony next week for a Hindu temple on a disputed site in northern India where a 16th century mosque was torn down by Hindu hard-liners in 1992. ...

• Another police killing of a black man stokes US tension, debate 14 June 2020 | Jim Mannion This post has one comment

  The fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer, this time in Atlanta, Georgia, poured more fuel Sunday on a raging US debate over racism after another round of street protests and the resignation of the city's police chief. ...

• Coronavirus cases in India pass one lakh, over 3,000 dead 18 May 2020 | Tibet Sun Online News This post has no comments yet

  India coronavirus cases surpassed one lakh (100,000) on Monday, and over 3,000 people have died, despite the world's biggest lockdown for its 1.3 billion people imposed since 25 March by Prime Minister Modi. ...

• Obituary: Pioneer of orphanages in Tibet dies from COVID-19 in Switzerland 10 May 2020 | Morris Tennyson This post has no comments yet

  Tendol Gyalzur, orphaned when fleeing with her family after the 1959 uprising in Tibet, who later went back to Tibet to establish the first orphanages for abandoned children, has died this week of COVID-19 in Switzerland. ...

• Indians light lamps to heed Modi’s call for coronavirus comradeship 5 April 2020 | Rajendra Jadhav and Ruma Paul This post has 2 comments

  Millions of Indians turned off their lights and lit up balconies and doorsteps with lamps, candles and flashlights on Sunday, in response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to “challenge the darkness” spread by the coronavir ...

• India hangs four men convicted of 2012 gang-rape in Delhi 20 March 2020 This post has no comments yet

  India executed four men on Friday for the gang-rape and murder of a woman on a Delhi bus in 2012 that sparked huge nationwide protests and international revulsion. ...

• Coronavirus concern comes to Himalayas; Tibetans take action 6 March 2020 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has 5 comments

  As concern over the new coronavirus reaches the Himalayas, including the village of McLeod Ganj, the capital of the Tibetan diaspora, the exile Tibetan community is taking precautionary measures. ...

• Police arrest over 500 for Delhi sectarian violence 28 February 2020 | Aftab Ahmed This post has 2 comments

  Police have arrested 514 people for deadly Hindu-Muslim violence that broke out in the capital, the government said, as it faced mounting international criticism for failing to protect minority Muslims. ...