Don’t Have Heart to Say Happy Losar My Tibetan Friends !

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           FEBRUARY 22 , 2012           02.45 A.M. Today , it is the Tibetan New Year ; known as Losar . This , the most important festival of Tibet , is celebrated in Tibetan diaspora with great fervour and festivity . Basically a pre – Buddhist tradition of Bon era , Losar [...]

Bleeding Tibet , Silent India & Indifferent World

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           FEBRUARY 08 , 2012           02.15 A.M. Tibet is in turmoil again . In the month of February 3 more monks immolated themselves . It brings total number of self – immolated monks to 19 . I am greatly pained by the news of self – immolation of monks . My [...]

A Belligerent , Bellicose China & Qing Dynasty

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           JANUARY 05 , 2012           01.35 A.M. Yiwu is a southern city of China in Zhejiang province . It is one of the world’s biggest commodities markets . China claims to have a legal system in place . Should we salute China for the brilliant and flawless legal system ( ? [...]

118 Blood – Drenched Years of Chairman Mao

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           DECEMBER 29 , 2011           02.55 A.M. On December 27, 2011 , Communist China celebrated 118th birth anniversary of Chairman Mao Ze Dong . There were celebrations throughout China . Mao Ze Dong , who was Mao Tse Tung in my childhood days , is the creator of modern Communist China [...]

H.H. DALAI LAMA is 75

I have no class today. I am working with only two of my private students , who are coming to me for the preparation of their forthcoming films. One is the daughter of a matinée idol and the other is the son of a very successful director and soon he is going to be launched [...]

51st Anniversary Of Tibetan Uprising

Today ( March 10 ) is the 51st anniversary of Tibetan uprising. On the same day 51 years ago, Chinese forces occupied Tibet forcibly and started their brutal and unholy rule and HH Dalai Lama had to leave his country with his followers and took shelter in India. Potala Palace remains vacant ever since, silently [...]

China’s Festering Wound-1:Xinjiang;Part-2

 Today I am reverting to Xinjiang again. Within a week, East Turkestan, renamed earlier as Sinkiang and now Xinjiang by China, erupted in protest against Chinese government and the so called People’s. Liberation Army. In today’s news papers there is a photo of an elderly Uighur Muslim woman standing alone in front of a garrison [...]

China’s Festering Wounds-1:Xinjiang

I must admit in the beginning that I am not enamoured by so called super power status of China. I am not going to write copious volumes about her doubtful economic progress. There is a valid reason for my doubt or disbelief. China is not a democracy. She does not believe in free society. And [...]