Time’s Treachery
O Tibet, for millennia you stood alone and aloof / Locked yourself in the embrace / of cold mountain corners
A Form of Nonsense Dialogue
Have you filled the forms? / Yes I did … / Birth form Créche form School form Examination form.
Bread and Freedom
Review of book KORA by Tenzin Tsundue
Our final kora will be complete when we return to a ’free’ homeland after years of roaming in foreign jungles. But to fulfil this ultimate journey, we need writers, activists, statesmen, thinkers and most of all bread-and-freedom poets to paint our reality as it is — so that when the kora is complete we can plan our future ’in our own words, in our own silence, and in our own wisdom.’
Music in Exile
Review of book Muses in Exile: An Anthology of Tibetan Poetry by Bhuchung D Sonam
Review by Tsering N Khortsa of Bhuchung D Sonam’s Muses in Exile: An Anthology of Tibetan Poetry: Nearly thirty writers feature in the book; all deal with the idea of exile, the anguish of dislocation, and the longing for their homeland.