By Sagnik Chowdhury (expressIndia.com) Posted online: Monday , July 07, 2008

You may remember him as Sir Narayan Mukherjee — Shah Rukh Khan’s father in Devdas, or for his roles in Richard Attenbrough’s Gandhi and Sea Wolves, but Vijay Crishna is a man with several other facets.
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By Lobsang Sangay July 6, 2008 (MeYuL.com) DURING THE height of the recent protests in Tibet, a 49-year-old Tibetan American living in Medford called his mother in Tibet. He asked, “How are you?” She said, “Not good.” When asked why, she replied, “Two of your siblings have been taken to the hospital.” The son asked, “Was this because of an old disease or a new disease?” The mother said, “An old disease but the doctor said the prognosis is not good.” Then she said, “Son, don’t call me for a while.” And then she hung up.
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Shaven headed nuns and monks in maroon robes were among 179 “free Tibet” protesters detained in the Nepali capital on Friday as they tried to storm a visa office of the Chinese embassy, police said.
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DHARAMSHALA, India (AFP) — Representatives of the Dalai Lama and China made no headway on the status of Tibet in talks this week, an envoy of the spiritual leader said Saturday, describing himself as “disappointed.”
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Saturday, 5 July 2008, 2:41 p.m. Dharamshala: Hundreds of delegates from the entire Himalayan region of India voiced their strong support for peace and stability in Tibet, during the function marking the 94th anniversary of Shimla convention signed to mark the boundary between China, Tibet and India on 3 July 1914.
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(Meyul.com) On 6 July one of the biggest Open Air Parties in Germany will take place in Hanau.
Tibet has been occupied by China since 50 years ago and the Tibetans are treated as second class people in their own homeland with their culture suppressed and destroyed.
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Tuesday July 1, 2008 Dharamshala: A documentary film compiled by the Department of Information and International Relations of the Central Tibetan Administration unmasks the series of Chinese government’s fabrication of the recent peaceful demonstrations in Tibet and baseless allegations leveled against His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
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By APRIL RABKIN (The New York Times)

July 1, 2008 Beijing: LAST week, amid continuing calls from activists in Europe and the United States to boycott the Olympics to protest China’s record on human rights, came a rare rebuke from the International Olympic Committee.
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Tuesday, 1 July 2008 (Tibet.net)

Dharamshala: Kalon Tripa Samdhong Rinpoche called upon young Tibetans to follow the path of truth and non-violence in their resolve to bring a peaceful solution to the issue of Tibet.
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July 1, 2008 By Gopal Chitrakar

CHAKU, Nepal (Reuters) - Nepali police detained dozens of burgundy-robed Tibetan monks and nuns marching to the Tibetan border on Tuesday to protest against a crackdown on anti-China demonstrators earlier this year.
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