The painful search for Tibet’s “Chosen One”
A young boy who was selected as a future leader by the Dalai Lama was kidnapped twenty-five years ago. Since then, Chinese control of Tibet has tightened, to the dismay of human rights observers...
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India-China territorial diplomacy around the 1962 war
From the start, Indian and Chinese approaches to the territorial issue remained poles apart. While for Nehru the question of the territorial definition of India continued to be as an ex-colonial modern state and...
Deep and dangerous impacts of Tibet on India-China diplomacy
From strategic and security considerations the emergence of a strong and stable PRC posed a new challenge to the Indian Policy-makers. Jawaharlal Nehru, in a letter to K.M. Panikkar, the then India’s Ambassador to...
Interview: New Delhi’s Tibet Dilemma
Xi Jinping most awaited India visit is due next week. Chennai is ready to host Chinese president, who’ll be meeting Indian Prime Minister Modi in the second informal meet, after the first one in...
India & Mongolia: Across the Chinese dragon
The year 2019 marked the 64th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between India and Mongolia. [i] President Khaltmaagiin Battulga of Mongolia began his five-day State visit on 19th September, the first in...
The selection of Next Dalai Lama and the consequent politicization
The events and happenings on Tibet are once again in the mainstream discourse and discussion. The reincarnation of Dalai Lama and procedures that follow is central to the discourse. Tibet, a land of Lamas,...
Trump Signs Tibet Access Bill: China fumes on Dalai Lama
Beijing on Thursday raged at the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama as the POTUS, Donald Trump on signed the Tibet Reciprocal Access bill to make it a law of the United States to...
China says Tibet human rights critics ‘bewitched’ by Dalai Lama
Those who criticise China over human rights in Tibet have been “bewitched” by the Dalai Lama, a senior Chinese official said on Wednesday, days before the 60th anniversary of the Tibetan spiritual leader’s flight...
The Dalai Lama Wants to Return Home | Is India bracing for the potential fallout?
First, Xi, widely known to have a soft spot for Tibet, hitherto kept his own approach close to his chest, fearing resistance from hardliners. Unlike others, he held the view that the prospects for solving the...
