Opinions

By N. S. Venkataraman, Eurasia Review | September 5, 2016

When President Obama received the Dalai Lama through the back door in his office a few months back, many eyebrows were raised. Many people justifiably thought that President Obama lacked the courage of conviction to receive the Dalai Lama properly in a manner befitting his stature and reputation as a man of peace.

Teng Biao, The Washington Post |July 28, 2016

Two years ago, I was invited by the American Bar Association to prepare a manuscript for a book to be titled “Darkness Before Dawn.”

BENEDICT ROGERS, The Wall street Journal |July 4, 2016 Britain could learn a lot from the way Germany broaches the

By Kalsang Dhondup | June 6, 2016 Being the voice for a voiceless people is a great service but being

By Choenyi Woser|February 29, 2016 (Translated from the original text in Tibetan) In this year’s election for the post of

Our exile system of government claims to be a democracy, but recent events have proven it to be quite the opposite. Yes, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has brought about a fundamental change in the system of government, transitioning from a theocracy to a parliamentary theocracy, to one that he hoped, after the devolvement of his political power, would become a truly democratic one. The truth is that we have failed to make his vision of a democratic and pluralistic exile community a living reality.

Tashi Shitsetsang | November 7, 2015 The preliminary election of Sikyong (Tibetan Political leader) and members of the 16th Tibetan

An Open Letter to the Sikyong, Kashag, and Election Commissioner of the Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala, India

By Maura Moynihan – – Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s state dinner at the White House last week received fulsome coverage — about the fashion, the food and tech giants in attendance.

The issues taken up by the hunger strikers as their main demands reflect the healthy level of social and political wisdom on the part of TYC leadership. Unlike most other social actions undertaken by various Tibetan groups in recent years which witnessed an unfortunate but avoidable divide among the community on ‘Rangzen’ – vs- ‘Middle Way APProach’, this action has been completely successful in circumventing any such controversy.