By Choekyi Lhamo DHARAMSHALA, Aug 12: The Chinese government has reportedly imposed lockdowns in regions including Tibet and Xinjiang in line with their zero-Covid policy. Chinese authorities in the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region have placed the entire population of 800,000 in Shigatse prefecture-level city under a three-day complete lockdown. In China’s occupied western region of East […]
By Choekyi Lhamo DHARAMSHALA, Aug 11: New Delhi-based photographer Serena Chopra launched a photobook ‘Majnu Ka Tilla Diaries’ last week in which she compiled Tibetan stories from 2007 to 2015 in the flourishing commercial hub known to Tibetans as MT. The photographer told Phayul why it is an important book to assemble, “Though these stories of upheaval and […]
By Choekyi Lhamo DHARAMSHALA, Aug 10: The Dharamshala-based research group Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) on Wednesday revealed new findings in a 2013 self-immolation case of Tenzin Sherab, 33, who died in Chumarleb County in Kyegu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the traditional Tibetan province of Kham. A monk named Tseta at the […]