The Red Forehead
Yet the same voice that calls you
Calls me
To invoke the mountain gods
To tell the warriors’ tales
To be a bit more like you.
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Tenzin Tsundue
is a restless young Tibetan who, after graduating from Madras University, South India, braved snowstorms and treacherous mountains, broke all rules and restrictions, crossed the Himalayas on foot and went into forbidden Tibet! The purpose? To see the situation of his occupied country and lend a hand to the freedom struggle. Arrested by China’s border …
I am a terrorist
For as long as the West continues to play salesman rather than statesman, placing commercial opportunity above moral rectitude, Tsundue faces a solitary mission.
The future is here and the leader has seen it
Instead of begging His Holiness to lead us on, we must come forward and take up the challenge he is handing over to us, his children.
Somewhere I Lost My Losar
Somewhere along the path, I lost it, don’t know where or when.
Tibet: A room for hope?
“I am Indian, perhaps more Indian than you. Why do I need a certificate?”
In a muddle kingdom
It’s up to India to decide whether to host such a dharma avatar as the Seventeenth Karmapa as a refugee, or to hand the sceptre to a triumphant China.
An open letter to Wen Jiabao
It’s time the true wishes of the Chinese people be expressed. And there’s no one who can do it more effectively than you, Mr Wen.
A Pale View of the Himalayas
Review of book Songs from a Distance by Bhuchung Sonam
This is perhaps what pushes writers like Sonam and Tsundue to their desks every morning to sing the songs of freedom on behalf of their silenced brethren behind the pale hills of the Himalayas. Their songs are sad and touching of course, but they are never depressing.
The Bounty March
The Tibetan activist outlines his people’s crucial history of hope in the half century since the March Uprising.
The Tibetan Resolution
Whatever we spoke for was all for the freedom of Tibet and our main concern was for our brethren inside Tibet who are living under Chinese occupation.
Now Tibet is not so far
The March to Tibet began from Dharamsala on 10th March, the same day similar uprisings happened all around the world, organized by Tibetans and Tibet supporters, even in Tibet — a global Tibetan uprising.
Red Forehead
Why is his blood so hot? They ask, / And I tell them — / That you were orphaned by circumstances
GYAMI: Our Chinese Imagination
It has been a long journey of shifting Chinese images for exile Tibetans.
Why?
Though exotic Tibet sells in the West, there are hardly any takers when it comes to tackling the real issue. The issue is Independence!
Our religion and the struggle
When Wen Jiabao comes to India to talk business and border, we must remind him that he has been eating out of Tibet, and raise the issue that China cannot dance on our backs and yet shake hands with India.
My Kind of Exile
Ask me where I’m from and I won’t have an answer.
The Tibetan in Mumbai
The Tibetan in Mumbai / is not a foreigner. / He is a cook
Until the last Tibetan
Independence is the one aspiration that can unite all Tibetans, whether inside or outside Tibet.