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It has been two decades since I left my homeland Tibet. It’s been two decades I haven’t seen my parents. It’s been two decades I haven’t seen my fellow Tibetans from my hometown, loss and sadness written all over their faces. Now, Losar is round the corner. I too gave a thought to the Tibetan New Year

In old Hollywood films of intrepid white explorers encountering savages in darkest Africa  (or tribals in benighted Afghanistan) there is usually a decisive moment in the story when the bwanas (or sahibs) are captured and it appears they are done for.

I recently attended a performance of the Hungarian National Ballet in New York City. The opening number portrayed life in Hungary under the Soviet Occupation, with two male dancers, one in a police uniform, the other his prisoner. The prisoner puts up a fight, but the policeman eventually breaks him with torture and hard labor, rendering him an obedient slave. At the end, a huge iron head of Lenin was rolled onto the stage and pummeled by freed prisoners.

he reaction of the Chinese government to the widespread unrest in 2008 was decisive and signaled a pattern devised for use in any ethnic disturbance. That

I live in a foreign land where Tibetan festivals hold no immediate meaning. Struggling onto crowded subways each morning and each night, avoiding the empty gaze of st

The Chinese authorities dangle profit in front of the greedy eyes of Western firms but then as those firms rush in and struggle to establish themselves in the

This morning I received a phone call. It said you envoys arrived in Peking on January 25. It said you would make your first visit to the province of Hunan. It is sai

Under such circumstances Ngabo and his counterpart Phuntsok Wangyal, far from being branded traitors must be regarded as genuine patriots, perhaps even as saint-like figures in the pantheon of

Most Tibetans, it seems, want to celebrate Losar this year. I agree that a modest observance of our most important cultural holiday would not come amiss right now,

Unfortunately, Beijing continues to insist that ethnic tensions are the result of meddling by "separatist forces led by the Dalai clique." Conveniently, this allows China's leaders to divert attention away from critical domestic policy failures