Tibetans

China forces Tibetans to learn Chinese dialect Mandarin

The Ministry of Education in China also made it compulsory to use the 'national common language' last year in June

Beijing Winter Olympics 2022: Tibetans hold hunger strike in Dharamshala to protest against Games

Braving extreme cold weather conditions, around 10 Tibetan activists of these organisations observed the fast in Mcleodganj, where the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) is headquartered

Special Frontier Force: Formed after 1962 war with China, secretive outfit was trained by IB, CIA and R&AW

It is important to note that the SFF is not part of the Indian Army but rather falls under under the Directorate General of Security (DGS), a covert organisation operating under the Cabinet Secretariat.

Refugee policies in Brazil, Uganda, Turkey offer lessons for India, but realities of influx, political contexts cannot be ignored

In the first part of this series, we analysed refugee policy in three countries that, like India, have also not signed the RC51 (and its1967 Protocol) – Bangladesh, Lebanon, and Jordan. In this part, we will explore the refugee policy regimes of key countries in the Global South that have – Brazil, Turkey, and Uganda.

Opening up India's borders for refugees isn't a zero sum game, nation can learn from Bangladesh, Jordan, Lebanon

Over the years, despite no national framework, India has followed a relatively generous, though ad-hoc, approach to incoming refugees. Considering this strong historical record, the recent Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) building on the 2015 amendments to the Foreigner Act Rules, appears particularly arbitrary.

Congress expresses concern over reports of Chinese Army crossing Line of Actual Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Ladakh

Congress expressed strong concern over reports of the Chinese Army crossing the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh division of Jammu and Kashmir.

Understanding the role of women in Tibetan society

Tibetans, both men and women, pray not to be reborn as a woman but as a man in their next life.

The exiled daughters of Tibet seek equality

On March 17, 1959, the Tibetan leader Dalai Lama escaped from Lhasa to India. Sixty years later, the nuns-in-exile are fighting a battle of a different kind. Amid brazen gender disparity, they seek to find respect, and their place in the sun

TIFF 2018: Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam on The Sweet Requiem, Tibetans in exile, and indie films

A fiction film is always a good way to pass on a message to audiences, say Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam

Centre working on policy for Chinese Buddhist monks who wish to meet Dalai Lama in India, says report

Centre is working on a policy for Chinese Buddhist monks who wish to meet the Dalai Lama in India.