The Young India

Kartikey Sehgal

–Drugs and economic disparity in the Indian home of the Dalai Lama

(The author travelled to Dharamsala earlier this year.)

“There will be a big vacuum once the Dalai Lama leaves us”, says Sonam Dorjee, a member of the Tibetan Congress in India. Listening to him talk passionately about his love for Tibet, I begin to think that he subscribes to the philosophy of some young Tibetans who feel that violence is the only way to achieve Tibetan independence from China.

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Ananth Venkatesh reviews the Tibetan crisis in its relation to India and China.

• He writes that China aims to consolidate its grip over Tibet through demographic, political and cultural means.
• He explains how an outburst of fierce protests and clashes in Tibet and in other countries during the Olympic torch relay was inevitable.