Category: China related

What I read (& found interesting) last week…

This week I am going to be lazy and so you will just have to do with a collections of interesting articles/tweets from the last two weeks. Noah Smith has a blog series running...

Inch by Inch – now in Uttarakhand too..

Barely a few weeks back, I wrote a post lamenting our inability to learn any lessons from past experiences with China. I had not realised I would be writing a  follow-up post so soon after....

We are like this only…

Almost 50 years ago, in October 1962, young men of the Ahir Charlie Company from 13 Kumaon faced an extraordinary assault. It came in the early hours of dawn, as snow was falling at Rezang...

“Inch-by-inch” in far-away Demchok..

How many of you read this “news” on 27th? I am guessing most of you missed it. I did too…until I was alerted to it by a friend on fb. …The government ban on construction...

Why India must support Tibet, courtesy Acorn

Courtesy Acorn,  here is one very good reason why India must support Tibet (emphasis added): Tibetan is the only language to preserve the entire range of the Buddha’s teachings, including the texts on logic...