Wailing woes
By Aaliya Anjum
Women in Kashmir suffer rape, molestation, kin's disappearances, psychological trauma and torture, while the much-hyped slogan of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh proclaiming 'zero tolerance' towards human rights abuse stares him in the face!

Dumping down minorities
By Yoginder Sikand
A move is afoot to curtail constitutional guarantees given to minorities by downgrading them and their institutions to the State or provincial level through a redefinition of the term minority.

World Bank on trial
ByNeil Tangri
An independent people's tribunal on the World Bank Group is being organised in New Delhi. The tribunal attempts to do more than simply chalk up another protest against injustice.

'State sponsored mayhem'
By Nilanju Dutta
A people's tribunal held in the wake of March 14 police firing and State vendetta at Nandigram avers that the West Bengal government has mainly been responsible for the ghastly incidents targeting villagers.

Mined games
By Manshi Asher
IAs profit-sharks of global and Indian corporate conglomerates unleash their might inside pristine tribal interiors, the new mining policy is bound to ravage ancient ecological systems, forests and rivers robbing indigenous communities of their natural habitats.

Scars of development
By Suresh Nautiyal
After getting full statehood in November 2000, Uttarakhand has become even easier target for the vested interests of private entrepreneurs in collusion with the political leadership of the state, reveals Suresh Nautiyal

The Tao of liberation
By Dinesh Ram
Many egalitarian philosophies and faiths were ignored as Buddhism was adopted as a way of social emancipation by Dr BR Ambedkar. Ever since it has been interpreted as a route to escape caste exploitation and slavery. Yet, is neo-Buddhism the only option for Dalit liberation or are there other radical alternatives in history.

Rangzen!
By Jamyang Norbu
Despite gobbling up Tibet, China has failed to break the spirit of the Tibetans emanating from a rich spiritual tradition. The task before those who remain in Lhasa or who took flight is to rebel instead of getting lured by sops like autonomy. Tibetans want Rangzen: independence.

Hope floats
By Warren W Smith
While global opinion shifts in its favour, the Tibetan government in exile should consider a deadline, abandon negotiations and autonomy in favour of total self-determination.

Lhasa lapses into invisibility
By Aprajita Sarcar
West alone does not have copyright over the business of colonising others for Tibet is not just under Chinese occupation but also signifies eastern imperialism to which the world as also India has been quite indifferent.

Deadend in Lhasa
By Claude Arpi
The Indian habit of sugar-coating Chinese sensibilities has always proven costly. Tibet is no exception while China has retracted from its promise to make it an autonomous region. Instead, they have been militarising the 'occupation' with rail and road links so that they can colonise and subjugate it completely.

Exiled for life
By Suzan Okar
Escaping from China has never been without risk for scores of Tibetans who had little option but to make India their abode. Settled in India, they continue to suffer because New Delhi is not signing the international treaty for refugees. Besides, India does not want to annoy China any more.

Where have all the progressives gone?
By Jogin Sengupta and Dimple
Progressive Indians have always been very vocal in supporting national liberation movements throughout the world from Palestine to Vietnam and in recent years the struggle of the Iraqi people against US imperialism. On the question of the liberation of Tibet -- an epic struggle underway right at their doorstep -- they have always maintained a curious and somewhat shameful silence. They have their reasons for it of course -- and it is these myths that this brief article -- abridged from a longer paper on the subject -- seeks to dispel.

Beijing brutality leaves Lhasa livid
By Ven Bagdro
Ven Bagdro, a monk from Tibet, grew up under the heavy heels of a repressive Chinese regime. He went through virtual hell in Chinese prisons before making it to India where he stays as a refugee. He writes about the grim Tibetan reality as the world merrily applauds China for breaking the economic threshold to become Asia's giant

Editorial

Letters to the Editor

Delhi's Tibetan glitch
By Brahma Chellaney
India's subdued stance on Beijing's unjustified territorial claims has basially harmed Tibet. And to add insult to injury, former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee virtually gave up on Tibet pretending that China was willing to accept Sikkim as part of India.

'Nothing less than independence'
By Karma Norbu
Karma Norbu is for armed struggle by Tibetans to free Lhasa from Chinese occupation. He talks of proper training to fight Chinese and calls for resources and will for this without creating differences in Tibetan ranks. He talks to Suzan Okar

CIA's great betrayal
By Abid Shah
Guns might have fallen silent in Tibetan hills after the fierce battles fought in the fifties with Tibetan blood and US arms yet the issue of Tibet remains vexed as ever, writes Abid Shah in his review of film The Shadow Circus: The CIA in Tibet

'China-glasswork has to break'
Activist, poet and writer, Tenzin Tsundue is one of the staunch believers in Tibet's right to win back its lost nationhood. In an exclusive interview with Combat Law, he says China's reflective glassworld that the government has created for its people will soon implode from within and that will be the world-changing event of this new century .

Here, grass is no more green
The Chinese dragon is steadily consuming beautiful Tibet's precious ecological diversity even as relentless capitalist development rolls on. Ravaged and brutalised, Tibet will soon run out of tears...

Enforcing loyalty
By Anant K Asthana
China knows that torture works as an easy and convenient tool for 'enforcing loyalty' and to escape from this 'forced loyalty', thousands of Tibetan refugees pour out of Tibet to India and Nepal. Anant K Asthana reports a testimonial description of China's human rights record in Tibet

Dalai Lama's olive branch
Years of occupation of Tibet by China can be over and Tibetans and Chinese can live in peace, if Beijing accepts Dalai Lama's autonomy plan for Tibet, says a communiqué of Department of Information and International relations from Dharamshala-based Tibetan Government in exile. Excerpts:

Buddha in the snowland
By Aspi Mistry
Buddhism traversed to Tibet from neighbouring India and took diverse races, including a Mongol king into its warm fold and the phrase Dalai Lama was given by him, writes Aspi Mistry tracing the history of a faith known for its humane compassion.

Red Tibetan
By Anant K Asthana
Despite being a diehard Communist Phunwang has been in and out of Chinese prison because he is a Tibetan as well. Once he was privileged to be an interpreter and more between the Dalai Lama and Chairman Mao. He has suffered, yet his goodwill cuts across Beijing and Lhasa.

Democracy of hypocrisy
By Lhasang Tsering
As criminality saps the body The massacre of Tiananmen Square might have put the democratic yearnings of Chinese people before the world yet this could neither remind what Tibetan freedom fighters went through, nor did it allow any alignment of any worth with the Chinese democrats and Tibetans, recounts Lhasang Tsering

A cauldron of emotions
By Abhishek Kumar
Wild Swans — a novel set in Tibet — unravels the mysterious findings of three generations and educates one about the cultural metamorphosis that China underwent. Abhishek Kumar Reviews and explores the modern history of China

Walled women
By Suresh Nautiyal
Violence isn't just about daily beatings or physical and mental assaults in the confines of 'happy home'. Suresh Nautiyal reviews 'Universal's Handbook on Protection of Women from Domestic Violence'

Dare dial M for murder!
By Hitendra Chauhan
'Famous Murder Trials' is a collection of some famous and infamous murder trials in India. The book is of great importance to criminal justice lawyers.

Sinister shadows
By Meha Mishra
Virtual army rule in Kashmir has gagged the people's cry for justice. This is what Alok Gupta's anguished documentary 'Waiting' exposes, says Meha Mishra.

Remembering JB…
By Deepika D'Souza
An upright and conscientious civil servant, JB D'Souza, who always cherished the cause of the citizenry, passes away, bringing an end to a chapter in Mumbai's bureaucratic history and leaving HRLN, among others, poorer. Deepika D'Souza fondly remembers the man

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