Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, their future aspiration for Tibet and give them a platform through which they can freely express themselves and in many ways decide their own future. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who are silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.In this Episode we engage with Tenzin Pema la who fought and raised the Tibetan national flag, drew thousands of Tibetans at the Matrix Fight Night (MFN)14 in Noida, India.She shares with us her journey from a young girl growing up in the Himalayas and how drawing inspiration from the legendary boxer Muhammad Ali she embarked on a remarkable journey into the realm of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA).She illuminates the day-to-day challenges she encounters, underscoring the rigorous training regimen essential for achieving excellence in this sport. She articulates her aspiration to not only represent Tibetans on the international stage but also to contribute to the betterment of the Tibetan community by imparting her expertise in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) through comprehensive training programs.

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, their future aspiration for Tibet and give them a platform through which they can freely express themselves and in many ways decide their own future. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who are silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.In this Episode we engage with Dr. Dickey Choedon la who shares insights from her research paper "Changing Legal Identity: Tibetans’ View on Indian Citizenship" which expounds and explores on the recent surge of Tibetans applying of Indian Citizenship and procuring Indian Passports legally. She engages on the complex realities faced by Tibetans in exile, as they navigate geopolitical challenges and pursue better opportunities, from her personal experience and the anecdotes of individuals whom she interviewed. The growing number of Tibetans opting for Indian citizenship also raises questions about the continuity and cohesion of the Tibetan freedom movement.

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, their future aspiration for Tibet and give them a platform through which they can freely express themselves and in many ways decide their own future. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who are silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.In this Episode we engage with Thupten Rinzin la who recounts his journey since joining the Central Tibetan Administration in 2014, shedding light on pathways to civil service within the Tibetan Government-in-Exile. As Coordinator of the India Tibet Coordination Office (which is based in New Delhi), he discusses initiatives to bolster support for Tibetans in India and the importance of engaging youth. Additionally, he reflects on his experience as a recipient of the Tibetan Scholarship Programme, emphasising its meaningful impact on Tibetan diasporic development.Disclaimer: This session was recorded when Thupten Rinzin la was the Coordinator of India Tibet Coordination Office, he is not the Coordinator currently but continues to serve the Central Tibetan Administration in the Social and Resource Development Fund (SARD) based in Dharamshala.

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, their future aspiration for Tibet and give them a platform through which they can freely express themselves and in many ways decide their own future. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who are silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.In this Episode we engage with Tenzin Passang la, the current India National Director of Students for a Free Tibet - India. Tenzin Passang la unfolds the origins of Students for a Free Tibet, a prominent Tibet Support Group globally, shedding light on the driving forces that led her to become an integral part of it. She passionately articulates the critical role that SFT plays in addressing the challenging circumstances faced by Tibet, a region under occupation. She further expounds on the various initiatives orchestrated by SFT to counteract the misleading narratives propagated by Beijing concerning Tibet. The conversation provides valuable insights into the organisation's commitment to fostering awareness and advocating for the rights and freedom of the Tibetan people. Moreover, she offers a poignant glimpse into her personal journey, recounting her time at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and the profound impact it had on her perspective. A particularly inspiring segment unfolds as she shares her triumphant battle against cancer, a testament to resilience and the unwavering support she received from her family and friends.

The Fault Lines is a series by FNVA that discuss developments occurring on our Indian frontiers. Engaging extensively with the Universities on these regions and bringing them to the fore.The Second Episode of The Fault Lines sees Claude Arpi, Author, Tibet Expert, Advisor at FNVA and Director of the Pavilion of Tibetan Culture at Auroville addressing on the topic "The Sino-Indian Boundary - A Historical Background with emphasis on the Ladakh sector".Claude Arpi here with us the historical background and significance of Ladakh when it comes the current India - China Boundary which was previously the India - Tibet Border. Also emphasising the role of Tibet and Tibetans in this Ladakh sector of the Indian border and brings to light recent development in the region. Further highlighting the central role that the Dalai Lama plays here in this region that is connected to current China but erstwhile independent Tibet.This Episode is moderated by Professor Sonam Joldan from the University of Ladakh and was addressed to the University of Ladakh.The lecture is divided into two part and each one ends with an engaging Q and A session with the students and faculties of the University of Ladakh.

The Fault Lines is a series by FNVA that discuss developments occurring on our Indian frontiers. Engaging extensively with the Universities on these regions and bringing them to the fore. The First Episode of The Fault Lines sees Professor Srikanth Kondapalli, the Dean of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and FNVA Trustee addressing on the topic "Western Sector of the Border in India-China Relations". This Episode is moderated by Professor Sonam Joldan from the University of Ladakh and was addressed to the University of Ladakh on 16th May, 2023. Professor Srikanth Kondapalli gives an overall take on the Western Sector in the Indian Border and gradually dwells into detail and complexity surrounding this. The lecture ends with an engaging Q and A session with the students and faculties of the University of Ladakh.

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, their future aspiration for Tibet and give them a platform through which they can freely express themselves and in many ways decide their own future. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who are silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.In this Episode we engage with Tenzin Shinyi, a Tibetan who was born in India, studied in Tibet/China and is currently in doing her further studies in India. She shares personal anecdotes of her experience in Tibet and as a student leader in various organisations notably the Global Tibetan People's Movement for Middle Way Approach, Tibetan College Student's Conference and several others. Furthermore she highlights the situation of Tibet currently and how it is one to be looked into seriously. She shares how her audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama though made her overwhelmed and emotional it simultaneously inspired and motivated her further to do more for Tibet and the Tibetan people.

Tibet in Context is a podcast series that gears in gaining a deeper understanding of Tibet through conversations with Tibetans, China Watchers, Tibetologists, Environmentalist and Security Experts.Our guest today, Ethan Gutmann, makes a chilling hypothesis to our host Kate Saunders. What if Thermo Fisher has been involved in a process to discover if one person’s vital organs could fit into another person’s body? Our podcast brings together horrifying research on the killing of Falun Gong practitioners and Uyghurs for their organs in China. The China Tribunal in London in 2019 concluded that for decades, prisoners have been killed and their organs sold across the world including to people in Western countries and the Gulf states. In our discussion, Ethan Gutmann talks about his difficult and dangerous research talking to courageous survivors of prison camps in Xinjiang, and how he pieced together evidence of connections between disappearances from the prison camps, and hospitals and transplant centres in China. He describes how green lanes for organ transfers at airports in East Turkestan appeared at around the same time as the construction of new crematoriums in the same area

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, their future aspiration for Tibet and give them a platform through which they can freely express themselves and in many ways decide their own future. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who are silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.The conversation with H.E. the 9th Kunsang Dorjie Rinpoche La sees him engaging on the themes of Buddhism, how it came to Tibet, what is it's status under the illegal Chinese Occupation, the forms of reincarnation in the Tibetan tradition of Buddhism, the major role His Holiness the Dalai Lama continues to play, Rinpoche's own initiatives and tryst with Buddhism and many more. Rinpoche la also blesses us with the Relics of Lord Buddha and narrates how it was passed on to him in Tibet, hidden from the hands of Chinese Communist forces during the destruction that occurred during the Cultural revolution.

Tibet in Context is a podcast series that gears in gaining a deeper understanding of Tibet through conversations with Tibetans, China Watchers, Tibetologists, Environmentalist and Security Experts.In this episode, our host Kate Saunders engages with Dr. Gyal Lo la on the life of the 10th Panchen Rinpoche in Tibet, who worked to protect the Tibetan language, culture and religion with the 6th Gungthang Rinpoche, whom many consider to be the right hand of the 10th Panchen Rinpoche - from the perspective of a Tibetan educationalist with personal experience of this very period and interaction with both Rinpoche’s.After escaping from Tibet in 2020, Dr. Gyal Lo presented His Holiness the Dalai Lama with his book about the remarkable life of Gungthang Rinpoche. He also reflects on the entwined lives of these three great religious leaders, including, the harsh atrocities and imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution and the politics involved in the selection of the 11th Panchen Lama.

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, their future aspiration for Tibet and give them a platform through which they can freely express themselves and in many ways decide their own future. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who are silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.In this Episode we engage with Tenzin Tsangpa, a Tibetan student in France - dwells on how he was confronted, harassed and assaulted by a group of misinformed Chinese mainlanders during the recently concluded 2023 Counter Strike: Global Offensive Finals at Paris on 21st May, 2023. Further indicating the level of Chinese Transnational Aggression and Policing for that matter at such an international event as well, also illustrating how it has gone berserk with even common citizens who have been brainwashed taking part in it as it continues to be left unchecked.. He only raised and displayed his Tibetan national flag proudly at this major event when rooting for his #teamvitality but was not only harmed personally but the whole event that was live stream even in Mainland China was disrupted and censored because of the Tibetan National Flag.

Tibet in Context is a podcast series that gears in gaining a deeper understanding of Tibet through conversations with Tibetans, China Watchers, Tibetologists, Environmentalist and Security Experts.A conversation with Professor Gyal Lo la.Tibetan scholar Professor Gyal Lo is a remarkable witness to China's accelerated assimilationist policies, aimed at the extinction of a separate Tibetan identity and sense of history.In this podcast, he reflects on why he had to defect from the PRC in 2020, his fears for the future and the immense emotional impact of his meeting with the Dalai Lama. In this conversation with FNVA, Professor Gyal Lo speaks to FNVA about the importance of India to the survival of Tibetan Buddhist culture, and warns India to watch what China does, not what it says. He gives personal testimony of the impacts of China's colonial boarding school system on the lives of children in his own family, and the struggles of Tibetan intellectuals to maintain their language and spirit.Born in Amdo, eastern Tibet, Dr Gyal Lo obtained his master's degree from the Tibetan Language and Culture Department at the Northwestern University for Nationalities in Lanzhou. He became an assistant professor in the same department, where he taught for the next decade, undertaking intensive research into education in Tibet. After leaving home to obtain his PhD from the University of Toronto, Dr Lo returned home, and was troubled to find evidence in his own family of detrimental impacts of China's kindergarten and boarding school education on Tibetan children. For the next five years he visited over 50 of these boarding schools and documented their impacts on children and the community.He obtained a professorship at Yunnan Normal University in 2017, but in a worsening political climate, his position was terminated, and he was compelled to leave the PRC in December 2020. After resettling in Canada, where he now lives, Dr Lo decided to speak out about his experiences and his fears for the future survival of Tibetan language, culture and religion. He has testified in numerous international fora with his extensive knowledge of China's colonial boarding schools in Tibet, including in the UK Parliament, UN committees and in February 2023 at Canada's House of Commons' Subcommittee on International Human Rights.

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, their future aspiration for Tibet and give them a platform through which they can freely express themselves and in many ways decide their own future. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who are silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.In this Episode we engage with New Delhi Executive of the Global Tibetan People's Movement for Middle Way Approach (GTPMMWA) and YouTube Vlogger Tenzin Wangchuk sees him engage on the Middle Way Approach, which is the official policy by the Tibetan Government in Exile, who represents Tibetans in resolving the Tibet-China Conflict. He also shares to us his experience at TCV Suja where he did his schooling after escaping from China Occupied Tibet and likewise tells us about his popular YouTube Channel 'The International Commentator'.

This talk is part of the FNVA’s Round Table titled as “Next Decade of India-China Relations: Scope for Policy Alternatives?”, held at the India International Centre, New Delhi – 2013.Jayadev Ranade, president of Centre for China Analysis Strategy and author Xi Jinping China's Third New Era elaborately explains how China had successfully handed over its leadership to a new corp of Chinese communist leaders. He further highlights the 18th Party Congress and the composition of the party's top leader. On India, he asserted Beijing's continual inroads in border encroachment which has increased drastically, destabilising India's neighbour (Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar), military deployment in occupied Tibet and restricting India's growing aspirations in its region.

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, their future aspiration for Tibet and give them a platform through which they can freely express themselves and in many ways decide their own future. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who are silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.In this episode we engage with Tibetan Researcher and Rangtsen Advocate Tenzin Nyinjey on Tibet, The Tibetan Freedom Movement, The Tibetan Uprising Day, The Exile Tibetan Democracy and the Tibetan Youths. He also shares to us his time in Dharamshala, the stark differences he observes between India and Canada, and how Tibetans being predominately bilingual and experiencing both the Global South and the Global North can be unique bridges.

Unsilenced: Voices of Young Tibetans is a podcast series where we have conversations with young Tibetans who will offer an interesting view of their lives in exile, their future aspiration for Tibet and give them a platform through which they can freely express themselves and in many ways decide their own future. The podcast is also a tribute to all those brave Tibetans in Tibet who are silenced both physically and mentally by the Chinese occupiers.In this episode, we engage with Tibetan activist and Tibetan Youth Congress General Secretary Sonam Tsering sees him share to us his journey from Tibet. how he came to exile? how he crossed the Himalayas?. Came to Nepal and then India where he met His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and continued his journey in exile to now become the General Secretary of the largest Tibetan NGO in exile, The Tibetan Youth Congress. His journey continues and he holds the flame of truth and freedom for Tibet close to his always, remembering his sisters and brothers in Tibet.

The policy document was launched on 27th January, 2023 at the India International Centre, Annexe, New Delhi. This report is meant for the long-term projection of issues between INDIA, TIBET and CHINA and for their possible resolution in a peaceful manner.

Tibet in Context is a podcast series that gears in gaining a deeper understanding of Tibet through conversations with Tibetans, China Watchers, Tibetologists, Environmentalist and Security Experts.In this episode, Kate Saunders from FNVA engages with Martin Bursík, Shao Jiang and Anders Højmark Andersen. Discussing on how Europe Kowtows to China and Beijing and also how they along with other leaders have fought back on this front.This podcast takes the temperature of China’s influence on European democracies after a series of shocking incidents in capitals including London, Prague and Copenhagen when police and the authorities appeared to collude with Chinese Communist Party objectives to prevent and block peaceful protests by Tibet activists.The protests coincided with major state visits by Chinese leaders – previous leaders Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, and current Party Secretary Xi Jinping.In Copenhagen, it was revealed in 2021 that the Danish government pressured the police to be heavy handed with protesters during official visits of Chinese officials in Denmark (https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/authorities-accused-of-pressuring-copenhagen-police-over-china-critical-protests/)In Prague, during the state visit of the Chinese president Xi Jinping in 2016, over several hundred Czech pro-justice and Tibet supporters rallied in Prague, waving Tibetan national flags and chanting slogans including ‘Freedom for Tibet’. The Czech police closed the main square to protesters, who were confronted by Chinese, including a Chinese couple who snatched the Tibetan national flag from a Czech woman and threw it into the river.In search of justice for the ‘shameful’ response by Czech authorities, the organisers of the peaceful demonstration - Martin Bursík, Katerina Bursik Jacques, Tomas Pikola, and Katerina Kudlackova filed a lawsuit. In a historic win, the Czech court ruled in favour of democratic rights and announced the Czech police’s response as “unlawful”.In London, Shao Jiang, a Tiananmen Square survivor who fled China and was granted political asylum, was arrested in London in October 2015 during a state visit by President Xi Jinping together with two Tibetan women, who were also peaceful protesters. Video footage shows Shao holding two A4 sheets of paper, one saying “End Autocracy” and the other saying “Democracy Now” before being aggressively detained by officers.Police watchdog investigators then found evidence that the MET’s treatment of Shao, one of the last protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989, was influenced by pressure from Beijing to ensure Xi was not “embarrassed” by protests during his visit.

This talk is part of the FNVA’s Round Table titled as “Next Decade of India-China Relations: Scope for Policy Alternatives?”, held at the India International Centre, New Delhi – 2013.Gordon Chang, the author of ‘The Coming Collapse of China’ and ‘The Great US-China Tech War’ calls out the rouse of the Chinese economy. He further asserts how the Chinese economy which needs reform to continue its growth requires necessary political if they were to fulfil its ambitions. He explains the key points that led to the unprecedented rise of the Chinese economy and argues that the current polices like the ‘One-Child policy’ contradicts its vision, leading to ghost cities. He predicts how the infighting in the Chinese leadership would lead to an eventual disarray, which we witnessed during the recently concluded 20th National Party Congress, 2022 when former president Hu Jintao was sidelined and removed from the dais. Similarly on the foreign policy front he accurately predicts a more aggressive China in the coming years and how India would be confronted by it on various fronts as China sees India as its true rival and enemy in the long run.

This talk is part of the FNVA’s Round Table titled as “Next Decade of India-China Relations: Scope for Policy Alternatives?”, held at the India International Centre, New Delhi – 2013.The late Lodi Gyari Rinpoche was the key Tibetan statesmen when the Sino-Tibetan Dialogue initiated and took place. He explains to us in his presentation what this dialogue is and how it is pivotal in resolving the Tibet-China conflict. Furthermore, he gives insights on the Chinese leadership including the diplomatic tactics employed by the former presidents of the PRC, late Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao. He also asserts the importance of Tibet when it comes to Chinese bilateral relationship with India and also the USA, sharing anecdotes to back his statements.