🚨 BREAKING 🚨

SFT unfurled a giant banner on an overpass above Xi’s motorcade as he was arriving in Paris. In China, Xi may be able to ignore the plight of Tibetans, but in France we are going to expose his lies and guarantee that Xi cannot forget us.

#FreeTibet #TibetLibre

Borderlands, History, Politics folks, what is a good starting reading for political history of Ladakh?

Had the opportunity to contribute to the latest issue of Current History journal highlighting the imminent challenges for the Tibetan exile community.

In our latest issue, Sonika Gupta says the stateless Tibetan exile community in India is at a turning point, with emigration rising and a leadership transition looming.
online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

In my course 'Our Many-Tongued Nations: Language Movements in Modern South Asia,' we turn to the languages of #Tibet and eastern Himalaya this month.
Thrilled to host Dorjee Tseten (Dorjee Tseten) to talk about #Tibet an and Swargajyoti Gohain (@AshokaUniv) about #Bhoti .
In-person.

Electoral bonds aren’t just a financial & political scam. This is scary. Covid as a money making opportunity to fund electoral bonds.

Swati Chawla, Ph.D. Centre for Social and Economic Progress Constantino Xavier Shivshankar Menon Sonika Gupta Thrilled to tune in to this session! Such a productive & important discussion on the present & future(s) of Tibetan Studies in India & how a studying Tibet can further understandings of historical legacies of state, politics & policy. Excited for these conversations to continue!

The Tibetscapes doctoral group is growing! Read Ashwathy Viswanathan ‘s photo essay on the Kunphenling Tibetan settlement in Sikkim. Ashwathy is working on gender & exile. Hope to share more of her work here as she begins her doctoral research.

For Himal Southasian, I reviewed 3 new books on the Himalaya, & argue that Western narratives on the Himalaya must shift from the colonial explorers' discourse & start focusing on indigenous histories. It's a #longread , so a short 🧵

himalmag.com/himalaya-keay-…

It was an opportunity to contribute to this provocative & useful discussion on the state of Tibetan Studies in India at Centre for Social and Economic Progress with Swati Chawla, Ph.D. who did a dive into colonial & post colonial processes of state as they related to the Tibetans.

The Chinese government has distributed a training booklet to various Tibetan monasteries in eastern Tibet, prohibiting Tibetan Buddhist monks from engaging in 'illegal' religious rites and rituals in the case of the death of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.

RETURN OF A HERO
After completing my recent 3 days #ClimateFast and the recall of the #PashminaMarch I'm now on a short break. Meanwhile at the Martyrs' Park the youth are carrying on their 10 days fast.

Today they had a special guest... retired Ladakh's Army Subedaar Stanba,…

This is so accurate!

Arunachal in solidarity with #Ladakh

Sit-in protest underway at RGU today.

PASHMINA MARCH ACHIEVES PURPOSE BEFORE IT STARTS...
People of Ladakh have been fasting in protest for the last 32 days. These have happened in the most peaceful ways through prayers & fasts.

The purpose of the Pashmina March was to highlight the plight of the Changpa nomadic…

Why are we being punished for asking the Union govt to fulfill its own promises? Given this govt's track record in dealing with dissent, I fear for the safety of our people on the ground. Hopefully no one gets hurt but this is where things will get tense. #Ladakh #OmManiPadmeHum

Internet shutdown in Leh. What sort of democracy is this? Even though these protests in #Ladakh have been nothing but peaceful & despite multiple assurances from our leaders, they've shut down the internet. What is the Union govt so scared of? #PashminaMarch #Ladakh Protest 1/N

Big Blow to Modi Government:

Sonam Wangchuk has announced plans to highlight the government's incompetency.

On April 7th, Sonam Wangchuk will lead a march of 100,000 individuals towards the Indo-China border to show Chinese encroachment on 4000 sq km of Indian territory.…

My invited perspective piece in the CurrentHistory on the challenges in front of the Tibetan exile community in India today.