Literary
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Prakash: Throwing light on Tibetan literature and culture
Guwahati: Prakash, the acclaimed Assamese literary monthly magazine, has come with a special issue on Tibetan (refugee) literature and culture mesmerizing its vivid readers who otherwise had never experienced the literary taste of neighboring Tibet (pronounced as Tibbat in Assamese), which has been occupied by the Chinese Communist regime in Beijing for decades.
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Chinese authorities’ true attitude toward minority languages: they are second-class languages
Despite enacting legislation to safeguard Tibetans, China forced the Chinese language on people inside Tibet. The Chinese government has long produced laws and comments expressing its support for minority languages, including regulations requiring bilingualism on all public signs in minority areas. However, the recent data from the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) reveals the Chinese authorities’…
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When all goes South
If I were asked what it is like to be myself dangling right out there somewhere in the midst of creepy death shadow lurking all around to devour its parasite, but that was the time when all goes south and half of my existence turned peril with myself fallen in the shadow of darkness.
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Tibetan Youth Says Thank You India with this Poem
A Tibetan youth says Thank You India with a beautiful poem ahead of the year marking 60th year of the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama stepping foot on the Indian soil in exile. The following is the original poem from the young Tibetan refugee
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For Tenzin Delek Rinpoche
Your star was so bright, Tenzin, Their darkness could not bear you. We saw you fall, A long tail of brightness fading Over the peaks and grasslands, And our tears fell too.
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Out of a Broken Heart
Now there isn’t fear to the burst of an outstanding earth quake nor is there fear to the end of this life. Meanings have faded. The keen love and excitement pounding out of the lively heart is no longer available for this life as the only heart is broken now.
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Perils of the world
I’m trying to get better, And not fall further For I know of places and people who have it worse. I believe in better times to come, In happiness and a lift of the curse.
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A Hero
This mind of us is dirty, this place of earth is polluted. Who doesn’t want to be a HERO??? But it is not easy to be it. Being has milestones to cross across and append in head, the pains and the senses that no one wishes to see. You have. A HERO may be a…