Reviews

India should have learnt from the way China said one thing and did exactly the other in relation to Tibet. Nehru had convinced himself that China won’t enter Tibet. He and K. M Panikkar, his ambassador in Peking, continued to maintain that an invasion of Tibet was highly unlikely

For a book dealing with Sino-Tibetan relations Warren Smith’s new work takes an unusual standpoint. It refuses to assume the

The spiritual leader considers the Tibetan cause as his third objective in life; the first two being the fate of humanity as a whole and inter-religious harmony, writes Claude Arpi

``Religion is poison,'' Mao Zedong reputedly told the Dalai Lama. The spiritual leader had come to Beijing in 1954, the year he turned 19. With Chinese troops in Tibet, he had studied communism and yearned to

Jamyang Norbu says in the introduction to this collection of his essays that his role model is George Orwell. Having read Orwell’s

Pop singer Björk performs a solo concert Sunday in Shanghai. The Icelandic singer has upset China after she declared "Tibet! Tibet!" to end a passionate performance of her song "Declare Independence" during a concert in China. The outburst, at the finale of Björk's Sunday night concert in Shanghai, made audience members uneasy because it publicly touched on Tibetan resistance to Chinese rule, and set off complaints online. She kept chanting "Tibet! Tibet!" throughout the closing of the song. (AP photo)

The Paradox of Our Age, is a visual adaptation from a poem written by H.H the 14th Dalai Lama. In this film, Thupten was able to create

The ongoing world renowned cycling sport event TOUR DE FRANCE has been these last days a rare opportunity for the Tibet supporters to create Tibet awareness by displaying Tibet National Flags and pro-Tibet slogans(Photo: tibet.fr - 27/07/07)

Lobsang rests on the third day of a hunger strike by 14 Tibetan men and women in New Delhi, India, on Tuesday. The indefinite hunger strike is a protest against human-rights abuses by the Chinese government, the alleged destruction of Tibetan culture and the alleged imprisonment of several key Tibetan figures such as the 11th Panchen Lama.(THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Saurabh Das)

Tsoltim Ngima Shakabpa’s fifth book, VOICE OF TIBET, has just been published and released by Paljor Publications in New Delhi. The book is now available for sale on