Jamyang Norbu's blog
The Tibetan Political Review has come out with an editorial that provides a masterly analysis of the whole RFA controversy and offers a way in which exile Tibetans can use this contentious debate to empower their fledgling democratic system. The solution offered is similar to the one I proposed in my two pieces, namely the …
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When I was researching my “Free Radio Free Asia!” piece I came across more information than I could fit into the article. I also came across material which was troubling, and which I could not bring myself to include in the piece, though it would have bolstered the case I was trying to make. A …
I am gratified that my blog posts have generated so much discussion on the issue of Jigme Ngabo’s dismissal from RFA. Even the few inaccuracies in my writing have inexplicably (but providentially) become catalysts for democratic debate, engendering historically unprecedented participation from the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA). First we had the clarification from CTA Press …
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BY TSEWANG NORBU I am posting Tsewang la’s piece here on my blog since he is someone who has worked in RFA for a long time and has an insiders point of view. JN Although I view myself a political person but I often prefer to refrain myself from indulging in heated and emotional debates …
I would like to thank the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) for joining the discussion (thru facebook) on my blog regarding the dismissal of Jigme Ngabo from RFA. This is a tremendous improvement on the policy of “overt disdainful silence” and “covert aggressive marginalization”, adopted by previous administrations towards my modest efforts to bring about informed …
In my last post I mentioned an instance of how Communist China was flexing its economic muscle to disseminate its propaganda in the USA, essentially through paying for pages of the China Daily to be inserted within the august recesses of America’s newspaper of record, the New York Times. One reader emailed me that the …
Seventy Tibetans have, one after the other, in relentless and purposeful succession, set themselves on fire for the cause of their people’s freedom. If anything so heroic, selfless, spontaneous, non-instigated, and entirely non-violent* had happened anywhere else in the world, especially in the West or in places important to Western interests, like the Middle East …
This is an incisive, comprehensive and very disturbing analysis of what is happening to Tibetans in Nepal.
. To all activists and supporters. Check out this very useful resource on www.rangzen.net/resources/maps/, created and regularly updated by our Rangzen chowkidar. It is a series of professional quality maps which provide accurate and thorough information on self-immolations, protests and other crucial events. If you are a teacher developing an assignment for your classroom on …
Quite a few of us have written on these tragic events in Tibet and have tried to explain, or at least guess at the underlying motives of those men and women who gave up their lives in such a totally courageous and compassionate fashion. But I think this one poem does a better job of providing the deeper emotional and cultural meaning of the protests than the writings of experts…
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