Opinions

As the year comes to a close, one could ask: What was the most depressing news during 2010? There were so many contenders for this description — from the shoddy

There are so many right-violations in Tibet so are in Kashmir which need to be immediately addressed and let us see what difference the interlocutors can make to heal the wounds of poor Kashmiris

In Tibetan Buddhist scriptures, human life is referred to as precious because it has special powers of accomplishment. One comes across three things in the context of human life: body, enjoyments and virtuous roots

The year 2010 saw India’s remarkable rise on the global stage. It was a year when the world’s top leaders—US President Barack Obama, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Frenc

We Tibetans often demonize or at the very least remain indifferent to the potential of private sector business in empowering our community. This prevents us from leveraging

To borrow a line from the nuns in that old musical, how do you solve a problem like China? It isn't a will o' the wisp that'll go away; it isn't a clown, though it might think the rest of us are. It is a worry for the world and a headache

In 1818, the British started the Great Trigonometrical Survey, the ancestor of the Survey of India. They thought that the best way to ‘conquer’ the subcontinent was to map the subc

WEN JIABAO, China’s prime minister, may be smiling through gritted teeth during his brief trip to India from December 15th to the 17th. His first visit in five years cannot do m

I welcome you to India. Although I am not a citizen of this country, I was born and raised here in exile. India is the only home I’ve known. I belong to the second ge

For a regime that cares desperately about its image in the world, China's Communist government is breathtakingly insensitive to how its actions appear to other nations. The result for Beijing has been a truly embarrassing public