Opinions

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

Twenty one years ago today His Holiness the Dalai Lama was presented with the Nobel Prize. I was just 13 but I remember well the overwhelming feeling of joy, celebration

I remember the exact night, thirty years ago, when I heard John Lennon had been murdered. I was in the hall of the kashag (the Tibetan cabinet) building in Dharamshala, at a

Like most Tibetans born and brought up in exile, I grew up, in India, with a certain idea of my homeland, one that was informed by two extreme but inseparable views. On the one hand was an idealised state of grace that existed before the Chinese invasion

He is older by five years since my last audience in the Gyuto Ramoche Tantric Monastery near Dharamsala, slightly more plump but engaging as ever and seems much more confident. That last is an illusion

China is emerging as a regional power and even as a global power. Yet China's leaders constantly refer to the threat of chaos which will erupt if they loosen their tight grip

In this regard, the editors of The Tibetan Political Review (TPR) are troubled by the personal attacks emerging in the 2011 Tibetan election. By personal atta