In September 1995 I accompanied Australia's ambassador to China, Michael Lightowler, and Australia's minister for women, Carmen Lawrence, around a site near Beijing hosting women from around the world gathered for the United Nations World Conference on Women.
I don't know about you, but it isn't every week that I get an opportunity to spend three days in the company of the Dalai Lama. Yes, that Dalai Lama. So I jumped at the chance to attend a conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
To the average Western-trained mind, death is one unfathomable mystery whose coming is much dreaded and must be avoided as much as possible. In fact, Western medicine is premised on the avoidance of death and the prolongation of life.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee went to China in June. Everyone clapped. Pandit Nehru's old dream, a true prevalence of Hindi-Chini Bhai-Bhai days, could finally begin to manifest. The ancient ideologues of the Long March were dead and gone
In the very early history of Tibet the dead may have been buried in the ground, but with soil at a premium and firewood equally scarce, Tibetans have spent the last few centuries coming up with alternative ways to get rid of remains.
On Oct. 15, 2003, Students for a Free Tibet enacted a mock execution of Tibetan political prisoners on the UCSB campus. Thankfully, the Nexus was able to send out a reporter to cover this action.
In Sino-Indian relations, the more things change, the more they remain the same. One day after Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal beamed with joy on the eve of Atal Bihari Vajpayee-Wen Jiabao prime ministerial talks in Bali while waving a computer printout to the Indian media showing
