Nothing better illustrates the perils of Brahmanical guile in diplomacy than the damaging controversy created over India’s stand on Tibet. That this controversy should have been avoided is evident from the confusion
Drinking yak-butter tea in the Himalayas is a natural high, writes James Elam. Yak's butter mixed with boiling water and salt. It sounds disgusting, but it's strange how tastes can change at 5000 metres above sea level.
Tibet activists must realise that further strangling Nepal’s near-dead economy will not encourage positive change on the part of the kingdom’s policy makers. Never mind the Maoist insurgency, every politically correct tourist now has a new reason to avoid Nepal.
In its anxiety to further improve relations with China and to wean Beijing away from Islamabad, has the government of India taken the first step towards writing off the Dalai Lama and the Tibetans and abandoning any role by India in
Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee returns today, 27 June 2003, from a six-day visit to China. Several agreements were signed during the visit that attempt to address the most crucial matter of contention between both countries over the last half a century
As the Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee winds up his China tour today speculations about his remarks still have not stopped making rounds within the exile Tibetan community.
What one must have expected of the Dharamsala administration was an outright condemnation of Indian Prime Minster's remark on Tibet being a part of China. Condemnation did come but not from the Tibetan exile government but from the Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest NGO of the Tibetan community with a largely different viewpoint
