Opinions

The recent news about certain Indian leaders planning to buy power generated by Chinese dams planned along Nygangchu, a major tributary of Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra river) represents the height of short-sighted international economic diplomacy.

“There’s Michael Jordan, and then there is the rest of us.” This is how Earvin “Magic” Johnson assented to the general consensus that MJ was the unparalleled superstar of the NBA in the 1990’s. Likewise when it comes to moral uprightness and righteousness among Tibetans,

Unfortunate, uninformed, unfair and agonizingly untrue remarks that all the Tibetans are poachers and they should be expelled from India if India were to save wild life shocked most of the Tibetans living in India. Of course, your prescription is unrealistic and has no support

Bursting at the rims of my inbox, spams (or email campaign, as one called it) such as these were the immediate cause, as I blurt out, “The

Tibet's capital is not a city of instant spiritual gratification. Those in search of a deeper experience need the patience and steadfast heart of a pilgrim.

In recent years, the Dalai Lama has pursued a dialogic approach to the Tibet Question. He has significantly modified his views of autonomy and made a number of fundamental concessions. His present position

I've had so much magic for so long, I thought of throwing out some. Anybody home? Ok, let me share my views with you. This article is for people who share my views, for people who oppose them

As China emerges ever more rapidly as a dominant economic force in the international arena, the global space for Tibetans and their supporters to act against the occupation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China is shrinking rapidly.

In the Age of the Image, when some of us sit like the prisoners in Plato's cave, transfixed by the projections cast on the wall before us (and ignoring the reality at our backs), those who wish to grab our attention

Naturally it is a sad fact for anyone going further and further away from his own real home, that too with uncertain return. But as the world is becoming more and more interdependent and closer day by day from each other