Opinions
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Cries Mounted for Reviving Nabin Chandra Bardoloi Library
Persistent voices are being raised to revive a historic public library cum hall at the heart of Guwahati city and popular demands are floated for using the space for occasional and selected public gatherings. The library, surrounded by Cotton University, Handique Girls’ College, Gauhati High Court, State Museum, Ravindra Bhawan etc, carries the memory of…
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DORJEE YOUDON- A Tibetan Female War Hero.
Tibet must also have female war heroes at various times and that their contributions were either not recorded or deemed of lesser significance by the mainstream. Interestingly while turning pages of Mikel Dunham’s book “Buddha’s Warriors,” I stumble upon an important episode about a Tibetan female whose name was Dorjee Youdon, which I would like…
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Inspiring Tibetan Activist from London for this LHAKAR
Lhakar as prominently known in the Tibetan community for every Wednesday as a mark of a revolution to dedicate the day of the week just for Tibet, bluntly translates to White Wednesday. Here is a Tibetan immigrant in London who dedicates every Wednesday to raise awareness about Tibet issue through a peaceful demonstration in front…
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CTA Applying Double Standards on Tibetans Seeking Indian Citizen?
According to an article from a Tibetan professor, the Tibetan government in exile is alleged to be seemingly applying double standards over the issue of Tibetans seeking Indian citizen. The JNU professor accused in an article that the Central Tibetan Administration while favouring Tibetans seeking citizenship in the West, it does not favour Tibetans seeking…
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Northeast India: Urging Media Accountability
As the alternate media expands its reaches to hundred thousand Indians across the country, thanks to increasingly cheaper internet connectivity, its restraint and liability also start surfacing in public discourses. The limitation and gradually losing credibility of the mainstream media may pave the way for a boosting alternate media, but it is still miles apart…
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Perfect Example of the Dalai Lama’s Relevance Even on Twitter
His Holiness the Dalai Lama is a very popular spiritual figure today for promoting messages of love, peace and warmheartedness in the generation of economic rush around the world. His Holiness’s words are inspiration to millions in their everyday life and his relevance continues to reach these people through various means of internet and inspire…
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Daily Mail’s Article on Dalai Lama is One Short Attempt at Sensationalism
The Daily Mail, in its report, sternly states that it has confirmed reports on the Tibetan leader making a “secret deal” with a billionaire. However, in a bid to highlight the Dalai Lama’s direct involvement with the organisation, the Daily Mail makes the erroneous assumption that the Dalai Lama is wary about the kind of…
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Pretending to be Savior of Bengalis
For many people in eastern India, Bangladeshi means Bengali. It indicates that everyone living in Bangladesh must be a Bengali. But in reality, Bangladesh is a tiny neighbouring nation with a secular identity comprising various ethnic tribes. The populous country is however dominated by Muslim population where almost everyone uses Bengali language.
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Little ‘Ice Boy’ Highlights the Height of Rural Poor in China
The viral image of a little kid, called as Ice boy in China’s south-western province of Yunnan showing frost on his hair and eyebrows recently depicts the fact that not enough help is being met to help the poor children and the rural families in China. An eight year old child’s journey from his home…
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There Are 3 Times More Buddhists Than Communists in China
According to a report in the Huffington post, it is being told that there are three times as many Buddhists as Communists in China and suggested that the Dalai Lama’s Tibet wish may require rapprochement with former adversaries. Despite the fact that China is technically a Communist country, there has been a certain degree of…