A Friend Falls in Afghanistan
The Progressive June 4, 2009 One day last November, an Afghan man chatted with my friend Paula Loyd about the price of fuel in his village, fifty miles from Kandahar. […]
Harvesting rain
Financial Times May 27, 2009 Poonam Bisht may be the best-known resident of West End, an affluent neighbourhood in New Delhi. The housewife and mother of two is the suburb’s […]
Pro-Justice, Not Anti-China
Far Eastern Economic Review/FEER.com May 11, 2009 During the past year that I’ve reported on Tibetan issues from my base in India, one of the Dalai Lama’s recurring messages has […]
Delhi’s Subway Builder
Forbes Asia May 11, 2009 The managing director is 77 years old, spiritual and is laying tracks like there’s no tomorrow. On a recent Saturday morning Elattuvalapil Sreedharan arrived at […]
Fifty Years of Exile
Wall Street Journal Asia March 20, 2009 Samdhong Rinpoche fled Tibet in 1959 but he still remembers his homeland vividly. “My memories of my life in Tibet are more clear […]
‘Murder in the Snow’
Far Eastern Economic Review: March 2008 Dharamsala – Lobsang Samten is a tiny 18-year-old who wears the red robes of a Tibetan Buddhist nun. Her head is shaved to a […]
Tibetan Education Thrives in Exile
Christian Science Monitor: March 6, 2009 As Tibetans mark 50 years since China’s occupation of Tibet, the exile community sees a major accomplishment in creating a network of schools that […]
Tibetan Exiles: ‘We Shall Overcome’
The Nation February 25, 2009 For the pro-Tibet movement, better nonviolence training and education have been critical to stepping up the campaign in the hills of Dharamsala and far beyond. […]
Indian stores in search of drama
Financial Times December 30, 2008 When Kishore Biyani tried a “clean Italian look” of glass and minimalist lines in one of his Big Bazaar stores, he was surprised by the […]
Truckmaker puts Delhi’s roads on the map
Financial Times October 29 2008 Vikram Lal saw a business opportunity where others saw only chaos. He is the driving force behind Eicher Maps, which in 1996 published the first […]
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