Q&A with Tsering Namgyal Khortsa
Poet/writer Bhuchung D. Sonam speaks to Tsering Namgyal Khortsa on his novel The Tibetan Suitcase.
Politics of the Prize
China’s condemnation of the Nobel Peace Prize claims that the Nobel Prize for Liu is a ’blasphemy’ and an ’insult’ to the Chinese people and is an imposition of Western values on China.
Tibetan Women
For a while now, I have thought about creating a blog focusing on Tibetan women’s issues. In general, women’s rights are important because of the patriarchal nature of societies,
Post Cards from an Imaginary Tibet
An account of the participation of the writer’s mother and father in the making of the film Seven Years in Tibet.
Virtual Tibet: The Media
The taking of firm roots of a free, boisterous press in the Tibetan refugee community has facilitated the Dalai Lama’s own efforts at the democratisation of the exile Tibetan polity.
Rethinking Tibetan Identity
What can we offer and what can we do for our sisters and brothers in Tibet? What can we do for our sisters and brothers in this shrinking global village?
An Offering to the Poets of the Land of Snow
My Body shivers / My mind is empty / Waves swell restlessly on the ocean
A New Year Invocation to Young Tibet in Exile
Raise / Your wine glasses / To usher in the New Year!
Telling the Exile Tibetan Story Like It Is
Review of film Dreaming Lhasa by Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam
Review by Dechen Pemba of the film ‘Dreaming Lhasa’: For so many Tibetans born in exile, Tibet is significant as an absence, an omnipresent looming large all-encompassing void.
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.