How Tibetans in Karnataka’s Dhondenling put down roots in refuge

The lush home gardens in India’s southernmost Tibetan refugee settlement tell stories tracing 50 years of exile

| Oct 10, 2023

New Tibetan writing stares down the hard truths of exile

A generation of Tibetan writers, many working in English, are laying claim to the voice of exile and pushing back against the fetishisation of Tibet by the West

| Aug 18, 2023

Refusal and responsibility

The predicament and precarity of Tibetan intellectuals in China.

| Aug 26, 2022

‘Locale of fear and ferocity’

On Tibetan poet Theurang’s works.

| Jan 27, 2022

The caravan of Sanuman

Translated excerpt from Dor Bahadur Bista’s Nepali-language novel ‘Sotala’.

Tibet: Impossible yet existent?

A reinvigorated spiritual politics of Tibetan Buddhism could prove to be a way forward.

| Jan 07, 2020

In the embrace of letting go

A Tibetan writer’s personal essay on a death in the family.

| Oct 11, 2018

Beyond development and diversity

Historian Tsering Shakya on the state of contemporary Tibet.

| Jun 25, 2018

A Tibetan Daughter

Four poems

| Oct 07, 2016

Literary sandbox

Tibetan fiction’s two overused themes of politics and religion limits experimentation

| Sep 28, 2016

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