Palden Gyal
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China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research www.bbc.com/news/article...
Shame on SHU for caving to Chinese intimidation.
Even if they backed off when they were duly warned by the UK govt.
But how many such horror cases of selfcensorship by universities go undetected, out of fear?
Shame on SHU for caving to Chinese intimidation.
Even if they backed off when they were duly warned by the UK govt.
But how many such horror cases of selfcensorship by universities go undetected, out of fear?
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www.bbc.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research www.bbc.com/news/article...
Shame on SHU for caving to Chinese intimidation.
Even if they backed off when they were duly warned by the UK govt.
But how many such horror cases of selfcensorship by universities go undetected, out of fear?
Shame on SHU for caving to Chinese intimidation.
Even if they backed off when they were duly warned by the UK govt.
But how many such horror cases of selfcensorship by universities go undetected, out of fear?
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"I have come to know Tsering Döndrup as an astute, witty and deeply humane person who is also, in my limited estimation, perhaps the most important writer of Tibetan fiction working today."
Christopher Peacock writes:
Christopher Peacock writes:
Tsering Döndrup’s defiant reckoning with Tibet’s legacy of violence
I FIRST MET Tsering Döndrup at his home in Xining – the largest city on the Tibetan Plateau, located in Qinghai province in western China. This was in early 201
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July 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
"I have come to know Tsering Döndrup as an astute, witty and deeply humane person who is also, in my limited estimation, perhaps the most important writer of Tibetan fiction working today."
Christopher Peacock writes:
Christopher Peacock writes:
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The Hindu Right has dispossessed India’s Muslims of meaningful political participation and fair representation in parliament and state assemblies, while radically altering electoral politics to cast Muslims as a political liability, writes Harsh Mander:
The political erasure of Indian Muslims
INDIA IS HOME to 200 million Muslim people. More Muslims live here than in any other country in the world barring Indonesia and Pakistan. Yet in 2023, the
buff.ly
June 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The Hindu Right has dispossessed India’s Muslims of meaningful political participation and fair representation in parliament and state assemblies, while radically altering electoral politics to cast Muslims as a political liability, writes Harsh Mander:
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This is the stuff of authoritarian regimes. There isn't even the pretense that this is anything but persecution, unbound by law.
Breaking News: The Trump administration halted Harvard’s ability to enroll international students, a major escalation in its battle with the school.
Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This is the stuff of authoritarian regimes. There isn't even the pretense that this is anything but persecution, unbound by law.
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My debut as dramaturg!
Jingqiu was inspired to create her dance work based on a point I shared in my TEDx talk: that the poems remained legible on the walls of Angel Island decades later only because those who came after had read, admired, and etched them into the walls.
youtu.be/w90Jzj6eD5c?...
Jingqiu was inspired to create her dance work based on a point I shared in my TEDx talk: that the poems remained legible on the walls of Angel Island decades later only because those who came after had read, admired, and etched them into the walls.
youtu.be/w90Jzj6eD5c?...
HOW DID YOU GET HERE? On caring for strangers, and other Chinatown stories | Eileen Chow | TEDxDuke
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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May 16, 2025 at 2:52 AM
My debut as dramaturg!
Jingqiu was inspired to create her dance work based on a point I shared in my TEDx talk: that the poems remained legible on the walls of Angel Island decades later only because those who came after had read, admired, and etched them into the walls.
youtu.be/w90Jzj6eD5c?...
Jingqiu was inspired to create her dance work based on a point I shared in my TEDx talk: that the poems remained legible on the walls of Angel Island decades later only because those who came after had read, admired, and etched them into the walls.
youtu.be/w90Jzj6eD5c?...
༼རླུང་དམར་འུར་འུར་༽གྱི་འགྱུར་གསར་འདི་ཐོན་པར་ལོ་ཙྭ་བ་གྲོགས་པོ་ཁོང་ལ་རྟེན་འབྲེལ་ཞུ། Delighted to see the publication of this important translation. Congrats, Chris!
Excited to have received an advanced copy of Tsering Döndrup’s remarkable novel, The Red Wind Howls, which recounts the Maoist period in the Amdo grasslands.
Truly a must read, thanks to Chris Peacock for the English trans. of this essential story. Highly recommended
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Truly a must read, thanks to Chris Peacock for the English trans. of this essential story. Highly recommended
@columbiaup.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
༼རླུང་དམར་འུར་འུར་༽གྱི་འགྱུར་གསར་འདི་ཐོན་པར་ལོ་ཙྭ་བ་གྲོགས་པོ་ཁོང་ལ་རྟེན་འབྲེལ་ཞུ། Delighted to see the publication of this important translation. Congrats, Chris!
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Too many people are allowing Donald Trump to continue because “they’re thinking of what is in their own personal, financial well-being, and not what is in the well-being of our democracy,” Cory Booker says.
“When Are More Americans Going to Speak Up?”
Senator Cory Booker on the grave harm that Donald Trump has inflicted on American life in his first hundred days in office.
www.newyorker.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Too many people are allowing Donald Trump to continue because “they’re thinking of what is in their own personal, financial well-being, and not what is in the well-being of our democracy,” Cory Booker says.
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I'm happy to announce that the complete retrospective of films by Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden that I've curated will be showing in Vancouver: Compassionate Light: Stories of Tibet by Pema Tseden. May 16-19. At the VIFF Theatre @viffest.bsky.social
Details here: viff.org/series/pema-...
Details here: viff.org/series/pema-...
April 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I'm happy to announce that the complete retrospective of films by Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden that I've curated will be showing in Vancouver: Compassionate Light: Stories of Tibet by Pema Tseden. May 16-19. At the VIFF Theatre @viffest.bsky.social
Details here: viff.org/series/pema-...
Details here: viff.org/series/pema-...
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Pope Francis’ inter-religious engagements, particularly with Buddhist leaders and communities, contributed to a broader culture of dialogue and understanding. ... a legacy of openness, humility, and a commitment to building bridges across spiritual traditions.
www.buddhistdoor.net/news/dalai-l...
www.buddhistdoor.net/news/dalai-l...
Dalai Lama Joins Buddhists Offering Condolences on the Death of Pope Francis - Buddhistdoor Global
His Holiness the Dalai Lama was among the Buddhist leaders offering a message of condolence on the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis
www.buddhistdoor.net
April 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Pope Francis’ inter-religious engagements, particularly with Buddhist leaders and communities, contributed to a broader culture of dialogue and understanding. ... a legacy of openness, humility, and a commitment to building bridges across spiritual traditions.
www.buddhistdoor.net/news/dalai-l...
www.buddhistdoor.net/news/dalai-l...
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The first photographs of Tibet were not actually taken in Tibet, but were staged in British colonial India.
To meet consumer demand, enterprising commercial photographers outfitted their subjects with stereotypical objects to create an easily identifiable “Tibetan” type. 🧵
🗃️ 📜 #Tibet
To meet consumer demand, enterprising commercial photographers outfitted their subjects with stereotypical objects to create an easily identifiable “Tibetan” type. 🧵
🗃️ 📜 #Tibet
April 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The first photographs of Tibet were not actually taken in Tibet, but were staged in British colonial India.
To meet consumer demand, enterprising commercial photographers outfitted their subjects with stereotypical objects to create an easily identifiable “Tibetan” type. 🧵
🗃️ 📜 #Tibet
To meet consumer demand, enterprising commercial photographers outfitted their subjects with stereotypical objects to create an easily identifiable “Tibetan” type. 🧵
🗃️ 📜 #Tibet
Such eloquent response from Singapore’s 🇸🇬 Prime Minister #LawrenceWong
"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong
(April 8, 2025)
(April 8, 2025)
April 10, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Such eloquent response from Singapore’s 🇸🇬 Prime Minister #LawrenceWong
Thousands of livestock have died in recent weeks due to heavy snowfall and severe shortage of fodder in the nomadic regions of #Changthang #Ladakh Neighboring communities were also affected…
Changthang councillors on challenges faced by the livestock due to recent heavy snowfall
YouTube video by Reach Ladakh
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April 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Thousands of livestock have died in recent weeks due to heavy snowfall and severe shortage of fodder in the nomadic regions of #Changthang #Ladakh Neighboring communities were also affected…
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"Someone may one day look back and find strength in the fragments we leave behind."
In this powerful video, Baobao Chimi (Minyag, Eastern Tibet) shares the story of his struggles to keep his language alive amidst the crises and pressures changing his village, and where hope can still be found.
In this powerful video, Baobao Chimi (Minyag, Eastern Tibet) shares the story of his struggles to keep his language alive amidst the crises and pressures changing his village, and where hope can still be found.
From Sheep to Words: The Vanishing Voice of Minyag
YouTube video by Endangered Languages Project
www.youtube.com
April 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"Someone may one day look back and find strength in the fragments we leave behind."
In this powerful video, Baobao Chimi (Minyag, Eastern Tibet) shares the story of his struggles to keep his language alive amidst the crises and pressures changing his village, and where hope can still be found.
In this powerful video, Baobao Chimi (Minyag, Eastern Tibet) shares the story of his struggles to keep his language alive amidst the crises and pressures changing his village, and where hope can still be found.
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Important essay calling out un-scholarly, unaccountable, politicized university boards of trustees, who control universities without regard for academic values or input from faculty or students. Need more transparency, more faculty on boards, stop selling us out.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Who actually runs Columbia University? | Arjun Appadurai and Sheldon Pollock
Trustees aren’t academics – and they’re often political wolves in sheep’s clothing. We need reform to save the American university as we know it
www.theguardian.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Important essay calling out un-scholarly, unaccountable, politicized university boards of trustees, who control universities without regard for academic values or input from faculty or students. Need more transparency, more faculty on boards, stop selling us out.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Since our administration would not fight the Trump administration in court, the faculty had to assume the responsibility of doing so to protect academic freedom.
www.reuters.com/world/us/col...
www.reuters.com/world/us/col...
March 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Since our administration would not fight the Trump administration in court, the faculty had to assume the responsibility of doing so to protect academic freedom.
www.reuters.com/world/us/col...
www.reuters.com/world/us/col...
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🎙️"A large part of aid comes with very high strings attached. Either you have to use the contractors from that nation or the consultants from that nation and so on." #StateofSouthasia on the end of #USAID with @jayatighosh.bsky.social
Jayati Ghosh on USAID and the politics of foreign aid in Southasia
In January this year, soon after taking over as president of the United States for the second time, Donald Trump announced a suspension of all prgrammes of t...
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March 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🎙️"A large part of aid comes with very high strings attached. Either you have to use the contractors from that nation or the consultants from that nation and so on." #StateofSouthasia on the end of #USAID with @jayatighosh.bsky.social
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My plea to university leaders to respond COLLECTIVELY to the Trumpist onslaught against academic freedom and the safety of scholars.
jimmillward.medium.com/my-letter-to...
jimmillward.medium.com/my-letter-to...
My letter to university administrators, in the face of Trumpist attacks on academic freedom —…
(Letter written to a couple vice-provosts and deans of my acquaintance)
jimmillward.medium.com
March 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
My plea to university leaders to respond COLLECTIVELY to the Trumpist onslaught against academic freedom and the safety of scholars.
jimmillward.medium.com/my-letter-to...
jimmillward.medium.com/my-letter-to...
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NEW — Per Homeland Security & State Department sources, the Trump administration is staking its entire case to deport Mahmoud Kahlil not on whether he broke a law, but on Secretary of State Marco Rubio “personally” deciding Khalil would “compromise” US foreign policy.
Marco Rubio Personally Signed Off to Detain Mahmoud Khalil on 'Foreign Policy Grounds,' Sources Confirm
The government is staking its entire case to deport Khalil on whether Rubio “personally” thinks the Columbia student protest negotiator would “compromise” US foreign policy.
zeteo.com
March 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
NEW — Per Homeland Security & State Department sources, the Trump administration is staking its entire case to deport Mahmoud Kahlil not on whether he broke a law, but on Secretary of State Marco Rubio “personally” deciding Khalil would “compromise” US foreign policy.
རྒན་བཙན་ལྷ་ངག་དབང་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་མཐའ་མའི་སྐུལ་མ། ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པ་དྨེ་ཧཱུྃ། ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པ་དྨེ་ཧཱུྃ། ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པ་དྨེ་ཧཱུྃ། #TsanlhaNgawang
February 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
རྒན་བཙན་ལྷ་ངག་དབང་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་མཐའ་མའི་སྐུལ་མ། ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པ་དྨེ་ཧཱུྃ། ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པ་དྨེ་ཧཱུྃ། ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པ་དྨེ་ཧཱུྃ། #TsanlhaNgawang
This isn’t surprising given that DeepSeek is a China-based, possibly state-funded company. Even Microsoft’s Bing exhibits similar political biases.
January 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
This isn’t surprising given that DeepSeek is a China-based, possibly state-funded company. Even Microsoft’s Bing exhibits similar political biases.
Kishore Mahbubani speaks in proposition of the motion that This House Believes America is a Failing Democracy.
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January 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Kishore Mahbubani speaks in proposition of the motion that This House Believes America is a Failing Democracy.
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My new article looks at Chinese Hui, Uyghur, and Salar Muslims adapting to the dynamics of urban social life in the early years of Xi Jinping. Being Muslim doesn't guarantee social or spatial affinity over class, experience, labor, personal history differences... www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TE97U...
Urbanization, relational space, and practicing Muslim ethnicity in Western China
In recent decades, market reforms, inter-regional mobility, and urbanization have shaped Muslim groups’ social practices, simultaneously encouraging the development of Islamic places (and reinforci...
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December 13, 2024 at 1:54 PM
My new article looks at Chinese Hui, Uyghur, and Salar Muslims adapting to the dynamics of urban social life in the early years of Xi Jinping. Being Muslim doesn't guarantee social or spatial affinity over class, experience, labor, personal history differences... www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TE97U...