symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  Posed by Ananya Vajpeyi, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

• CHASING THE DARKNESS OF OPPRESSION
  Bhuchung D. Sonam, poet and writer, Dharamshala

• NON-COOPERATION AFTER 2008
  Tsering Woeser, Tibetan author, poet and blogger, Beijing

• WHY TIBETANS SELF-IMMOLATE
  Wang Lixiong, Chinese dissident writer and Tibetologist, Beijing

• AT THE CROSSROADS
  Youdon Aukatsang, Member, Tibetan Parliament-in-exile; head of Tibetan NGO, Empowering the Vision Project, Dharamshala

• THE (DEGRADING) THIRD POLE
  Tenzin Norbu, Director, Environment and Development Desk (DIIR), Central Tibetan Administration, Dharamshala

• SELF-IMMOLATIONS AND CHINESE INTELLECTUALS
  Ming Xia, Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center, and the College of Staten Island, City University of New York

• EXILE - THE NURSERY OF NATIONALISM
  Dhardon Sharling, activist; Member of the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile, Dharamshala

• POEMS
  Tenzing Rigdol, contemporary Tibetan artist and poet, New York

• BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH: THE PAINTINGS OF TOMOYO IHAYA
  Ananya Vajpeyi, CSDS, Delhi

• I WILL BURN MYSELF AGAIN AND AGAIN
  Sungchuk Kyi, poet and journalist, Dharamshala

• AMDO GEDUN CHOEPELL
  Claude Arpi, writer and historian, Auroville, Tamil Nadu

• RETHINKING THE TIBET MOVEMENT
  Tenzing Sonam, filmmaker and writer, Dharamshala

• SCARRING THE LAND, SCRAPING THE WOUNDS
  Tsering Dhundup, Research Officer, Environment and Development Desk (DIIR), Central Tibetan Administration, Dharamshala

• HAME KYA CHAHIYE? WHAT DO WE WANT?
  Tenzin Dickyi, writer and translator, New York

• IMMOLATION OF SISTER PALDEN CHOETSO
  Gyatso, contemporary Tibetan artist, Virginia

• WHY THE PROTEST?
  Tenzin Tsundue, poet, activist and educator, Dharamshala

• A LETTER FROM TIBET
  Lobsang Monlam, monk, Tibet

• OUR LAST MESSAGE
  Self-Immolators

• GENERATING MEANINGS IN EXILE
  Sudeep Basu, Assistant Professor, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by Thubten Samphel, Swati Chopra, Alpana Sharma and Sukumar Muralidharan

• IN MEMORIAM
  Sir Denis Forman 1917-2013
  Lotika Sarkar 1923-2013

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