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…

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.