Mr Vijay Kranti is a prominent journalist and a long-time friend of Tibet. He is the first ever Indian journalist who traveled inside China controlled Tibet for eight days as an ordinary tourist without Beijing's patronization or direct control.
Techung a.k.a. Tashi Dhondup is one of the few Tibetan traditional singers based in San Francisco, US. At 43, he is as committed to Tibetan music as he was when he was a student at Tibetan Institute of performing Arts (TIPA) in Dharamsala, India.
Robert Thurman holds the first endowed chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the United States, at Columbia University in New York. He is the author of the international best-seller "Inner Revolution," and the co-founder and president of Tibet House U.S., a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of Tibetan culture.
"Where Tibetans go, butchers flourish," they say. But this is soon to end if efforts of a lone Tibetan youth is to bear fruit. Tenzin Kunga Luding, a Tibetan youth is on a mission to bring about vegetarianism in the Tibetan society.
When China invaded Tibet in 1950, it promised to bring modernity to the isolated feudal kingdom. Instead, it brought a reign of religious and cultural repression that drove the Tibetan government into exile, including its supreme religious and political leader.
This interview with Kasur Tenzin Namgyal Tethong was conducted by Tsewang Norbu for Tibet-Forum (a periodical of the Association of Tibetans in Germany)
With more and more students worldwide actively supporting Tibet, the Tibetan struggle has touched people of several nationalities who study at the various colleges and universities across the globe.
When there is a problem, a crisis, the media must show there is an alternative, says the Dalai Lama, the political and spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. The media should give the people confidence that they can change, that they can do better.
