TYC conducts month-long march to flag human rights violations in Tibet
By Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, May 3: Activist group Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) has launched a month-long “Tibet Matters March” from Gangtok (Sikkim) to Tezpur (Assam) on 29 April to raise awareness of the ongoing human rights violations in Tibet under the totalitarian Chinese rule. The march was flagged off from Gangtok, Sikkim on the April […]
Film Review: Broken Wings
By Tashi Wangchuk After hearing many good things about this film, I finally got hold of Shenpenn Khymsar’s first foray into Bollywood- “Broken Wings” at the Tibetan community hall in Northern Virginia, USA recently. The story revolves around a Tibetan college-goer boy and his romantic affair with a beautiful daughter of an ever-powerful District Magistrate […]
Solo cyclist peddle to Dharamshala condemning media’s role in Dalai Lama’s defamation
By Tsering Dhundup DHARAMSHALA, May 3: A Tibetan youth Tenzin Kunchok concluded his five-day cycle ride in Dharamshala on Sunday to condemn the role of media houses and social influencers in defaming His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The 29-year-old started his solo cycle ride from Delhi on May 25, covering almost 500 kilometers to Dharamshala, […]
Mandarin imposed as medium of education in schools across Tibet
By Tenzin Nyidon DHARAMSHALA, May 3: The Chinese government under its larger umbrella of assimilation policy has imposed Mandarin as the medium of instruction in primary and secondary schools across the so called Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) and Ngaba County in Eastern Tibet earlier this year, the Dharamshala-based rights group Tibetan Centre for Human Rights […]