Sombhum's Journal II Tibetan Blogger II Freelancer

  “I am the real victim from recent incident”                                                                         (His Holiness the Dalai Lama and young boy)    “None of the Tibetans can forgive when it comes to His Holiness the Dalai Lama.”   I am the real victim, all Tibetans are the victims, all the Buddhist are the victims, and all the truth and peace supporters of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and his followers are the real victims. Because there is no doubt about His Holiness the Dalai lama’s deep love and pure intention toward the child, that we can easily read from the full event video context itself. And of-course a young boy is seen speaking mirthfully to the media about his interaction with His Holiness. He was privileged and pleased to meet him and get blessed from His H...

Exile is all about Courage and Struggle. It is the courage to step up when fall-down many times and struggle for a better tomorrow to go back to our homeland. It’s hard to switch my rented house from time to time when our house owners asked to leave the flat vacant for their own interests. I move like a nomad in Tibet, from building to building, and street to street but I am not a bonafide nomad. I don’t have animals to rear as a livelihood and grassland territory that I grant to myself. Every year I have to renew my blue refugee passport to get permission to stay a little longer in this country. This chronic story keeps on repeating in the last seventy years and I am still left with no permanent home address. It hurts and hurts when I fill out my name, DOB and other details for many of my documents. There was a tiny column, ‘Nationality’. I scrolled through the drop-down and I did not find my country.” At the end of the long list, there was a word, ‘stateless’….It is hard to be a...