Opinions

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

The biggest obstacle to China becoming the world’s No. 1 economy is China. The communist nation’s determination to keep as tight a rein on its economy as it has on its citizens will lead to failure -- just as it has for other countries

China's greatest fear is that modernity is skin deep, and is easily lost. The gleaming modernity of the glass towers is just a skin, covering what lies behind: a vast sea

CAMP Hale at Colorado in the US is long way from Tibet. But what joins them together is the training of some 2,000 Tibetan warriors who were taught the art of guerilla warfare from 1957 to 1972 to fight China's Peoples' Liberation Army

To the surprise of many people, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna recently told his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi that New Delhi expects Beijing to change its position on Jammu & Kashmir by reciprocating the way India has handled Chinese “cor