Opinions

This Kalon Tripa election has raised our democratic process to the different level. The cyber campaigns and live debates have generated unprecedented responses fro

No one these days seriously expects summits between national leaders to confront and solve irritants between their countries. These panoplies are, at minimum, performance art to reassure the publics with comforting pictures that their leaders are

China’s 12th Five-Year Plan, for 2011 through 2015, is about to become public. The ongoing massive infrastructure investments typical of a centrally planned economy wi

Like many Tibetans, I am simply excited by the quality of our three Kalon Tripa candidates. However, I am also deeply concerned that our next Kalon Tripa will disappoint the ele

So, you think you are a politician? That should be the name of his show keeping it on par with all the primetime show running these days on the television but for

ENTHRONED in a maroon and saffron pavilion, the 14th Dalai Lama chuckled often as he preached to the football stadium, though his text was not taken from the jolly slogan behind

On Friday, December 17, 2010, I attended an event for Kalon Tripa candidate, Kasur Tenzin Namgyal Tethong, here in the Washington, D.C. area. Even though some of us are fa

Tibetan ‘soft power’ has ensured that we are going to see a continued rise in Tibetan nationalistic aspirations along with the flourishing of Tibetan culture and civilizatio

There has been a lot of brouhaha about the recent Kundun’s pronouncement that he might possibly seek to relieve himself of the political and administrative duties in the

A few years ago, I met a successful-looking Tibetan entrepreneur in Chengdu. He mentioned, with pride, that he owned and ran a hotel, indicating that he was creatin