We were ready to jump, all 48 of us — mostly young Tibetans, some elders too — ready to pounce at the Chinese Embassy in Delhi. We waited with bated breath, Continue reading
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Declare Tibet an independent country
This year, on 10th march, the 45th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day, Delhi will see the biggest-ever gathering of Tibetans and Tibet supporters in a free Tibet protest rally. Continue reading
Khenpo’s death a national loss
This column begins on a sad note — the demise of Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok. Like many of us in exile, life in Tibet is second-hand information to me or even third or fourth. Continue reading
Why I’ll climb more scaffolding and towers
Once, as a child, my parents left me with my grandparents while they went for a movie to the next village. They said I wouldn’t be able to walk back home in the night. So I broke the family water pot. Continue reading
Kora (Full Circle)
A fly sat on a crumb of cow dung being carried away by the rainwater flowing down the street. The streamlet took it to the end of the village where a stupa stood. The streamlet then went around the holy structure Continue reading
My Week: Rebel With A Cause
Protests, hunger strikes, and the 14th floor of Oberoi, Tenzin Tsundue’s freedom struggle has reached new heights Continue reading
My kind of exile
Ask me where I’m from and I won’t have an answer. I feel I never really belonged anywhere. Never really had a home. I was born in Manali, Continue reading