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In Walt Disney’s 1994 film The Lion King, there is a Kenobi-esque moment in which the deceased head of the pride — Mufasa — appears as an apparition before his reasonably a

A theatrical show sans denouement
The President of the Unites States and the Nobel Peace laureate Barack Obama has just ‘successfully’ concluded his maiden Presidential tour to China, but without s

17 November 2009

Dalai Lama As A Slave Owner
It is basic human nature to accuse, name-call and to use strange analogies when you have an internal crisis that cannot be solved. Beijing has been under the spell of

16 November 2009

A response to China's Lincoln comparisons

The Chinese Government’s most recent abomination — comparing Abraham Lincoln’s war on slavery to the PRC’s brutal invasion and occupation of Tibet (and wrapping it all up with a ‘you-should-understand-slavery-because-you’re-black’

09 November 2009

The Dalai Lama of Tibet in Tawang
The people of Arunachal Pradesh, as represented by their Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu, have extended a grand reception to His Holiness when he arrived in Tawang

05 November 2009

The world under the shadow of communist China
With the recent Chinese brouhaha and commotion surrounding the proposed visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to the ‘so called’ disputed Indian state of Arunachal, Chi

OBAMA SHOULD MEET WHO/HU FIRST? – Jamyang Norbu
When the announcement was made that President Obama would not meet the Dalai Lama on the latter’s trip to the USA last month, the disappointment in the Tibetan worl

04 November 2009

Nobel Laureates stand with the Dalai Lama
Dharamsala got a shot of firepower last week as three Nobel Peace Prize winners from different corners of the world made the long trek to Himachal Pradesh to stand with the Dalai Lama after US President Barack Obama yielded to Beijing’s will and declined to meet the Tibetan spiritual leader in Washington

03 November 2009

Endangering the Next Kim Dae-jung
Since taking office President Barack Obama has used strong words to describe the importance he places on human rights, democracy and the rule of law. In July, he told China's high-powered delegation to the first U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue that "support for human rights and human dignity

Why is China scared
A special ritual of life in Dharamsala is welcoming His Holiness the Dalai Lama back to his exile home. A victory banner is strung over the road as a multinational crowd pours into the lanes of Mcleodganj and down Temple Road to

30 October 2009

Dalai Lama Lesson
As President Obama prepares for his trip to Beijing next month, he'd be wise to cast an eye toward New Delhi, where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is showing the rest of the world how to deal with Beijing

China flexes muscles
THE mouthpiece of China’s Communist Party, the People’s Daily, claimed on October 14 that the Indians have become “more narrow minded”. It accused India of “provoca

21 October 2009

Bordering on Danger

It has often been taken for granted that China and India will rise simultaneously and peacefully in the 21st century. But a recent flare-up challenges th

War Talk: Perceptual Gaps in “Chindia” Relations
Until 2005, Chinese public perceptions of India were generally benign, even bordering on benign neglect. Yet, a radical change in Chinese public attitudes toward India

20 October 2009

A political catch 22
China has once again managed to stall a meeting between two Nobel laureates recently –

13 October 2009

Why India Fears China

On June 21, two Chinese military helicopters swooped low over Demchok, a tiny Indian hamlet high in the Hima-layas along the northwestern border with China. The helicopte

09 October 2009

WAITING FOR MANGTSO II - Jamyang Norbu
Popular legend has it that Louis XV of France declared “après moi, le deluge”, in a possible prediction of the French Revolution and the end of the French monarc

06 October 2009

American dream evaporating

The fact that Barack Obama is the first American president since 1991 not to meet the Dalai Lama is not worrying in and of itself. The reason why Obama chose to adopt this dubious step

01 October 2009

China is awake, the world is trembling
This was 60 years ago, a full circle in the Chinese calendar. Li Zhisui, Mao Zedong’s private physician was a privileged man. On October 1, 1949, he was allowed to

29 September 2009

Human-rights issues divide modern liberalism

Two Octobers ago, the Dalai Lama received the Congressional Gold Medal, one of America's highest civilian honors, in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Speaker Nancy Pelosi talked of a "special relationship between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the United States

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