Under the Grey Veil – The Sun-Beaten Path

Sonthar Gyal’s (a young Tibetan filmmaker in Tibet) film The Sun-Beaten Path — which won 2011 Dragons and Tigers Awards at the Vancouver International Film Festival — is in many ways a trenchant criticism of today’s

Tibetans in Sydney gear up to fast outside the Chinese Consulate

A group of Tibetans in Sydney, Australia will be fasting outside the Chinese consulate to join the Tibetan global day of action on 2nd November. The group in a press release said that the series of self-immolations inside Tibet in recent months speaks of unbearable plight

‘China might attack India,’ says Indian think-tank

The New Delhi based Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA) said China might attack India in the near future. “China’s aim could be to teach India a lesson so as to influence India’s rise before its capacity building underway acquires traction,”

OLD DOG (Khyi rgan)

Pema Tseden’s “Old Dog” (Khyi rgan) opens with a handsome Tibetan youth riding into a town on his motorbike with an aged, shaggy dog tied to a chain. The youth looks virile and has a strong bodily presence on the screen, but we learn later in the film that he is impotent

Under the Grey Veil – Review of Sun Beaten Path

Sonthar Gyal’s (a young Tibetan filmmaker in Tibet) film The Sun-Beaten Path — which won 2011 Dragons and Tigers Awards at the Vancouver International Film Festival — is in many ways a trenchant criticism of today’s Tibet, where individua

Tibet Film Festival concludes

DHARAMSHALA, October 30: The two-day Tibet Film Festival held in the exile seat of Dharamshala ended today with honours going out to some of the budding film makers in the Tibetan exile communi