As a news reporter for a Tibetan media outlet, the most
boring experience for the past few months has been reporting the global ‘Flame
of Truth’ torch relay initiated by Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile. The only thing
I have to do is replace the ‘Where, When and Who’ while keeping rest of the
report almost literally intact wherever it goes. I have sincerely and
rightfully so, personally speaking, lost patience to cover monotonous events
such as this.
ལས་དབང་གིས་མི་ཡུལ་དུ་སྐྱེས། ཤེས་འཇོན་གྱིས་རང་དབང་ལ་བརྩོན། སྐྱིད་པོའི་ངང་རང་ཡུལ་དུ་ལོགས། ལྷོད་ལྷོད་ངང་ཕ་ཡུལ་དུ་འཆི།།
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Social media and Tibet
On Sunday (May 27, 2012), I was engrossed and shouting to
the television which is airing the final cricket match of IPL (Indian Premier
League) when I received a text message from my girlfriend notifying that there
is an unconfirmed report of yet another self-immolation by two Tibetans in
Lhasa. While the news stirred me out of the IPL excitement, it slowly dawned on
me how she has come about from a seemingly hopeless reader of Tibetan news to a
potent one. No, she still doesn’t read much but she religiously follows
newsfeeds on facebook where much of what she knows come from. And as expectedly, she got the news from
facebook!
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Disturbed, not sad anymore
I have held my grounds sad
Even after 30 lives,
I heard and read, set afire
But I am a witness to the last one
Right in the country I am born
So I am thoroughly disturbed
And not really sad anymore now
Is my life that significant?
Is the constant haunting question
Coz I am nearly a peer
To Jamphel Yeshi
Who must have thought through it all
Before he finds himself plunged
Right to the centre of the fire.
So I am thoroughly confused
And disturbed, but not sad.
Radicalization is not a one way ride
Beijing is the killer that lies and prides in it
But we neither lie nor do we kill others
We kill ourselves as the last resort
So I am thoroughly disturbed
And I see no point being sad and a loser
Yes you are right, Jamshey,
A peer I’d call my ‘live’ hero,
As much as you are to all people of conscience,
That you called it a time to give ‘all’ you have.
Although I am a refugee but this body is mine,
One that yearns for that Tibet I am sadly not entitled to
So I am thoroughly disturbed
As I find you so right and true
And your wisdom, tragically meaningful.
Written on March 28, 2012 (The day martyr Jamphel Yeshi died, two days after he set himself alight in New Delhi to call for a Free Tibet.)
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