40. Professor Dibyesh Anand on Challenges faced by Tibetan Exiles.

This is a special conversation Drukthar joined by Professor Dibyesh Anand, Head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Westminster, London. He is the author of the Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination, Tibet: A Victim of Geopolitics, and Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear; and has published several chapters in edited collections and articles in journals on varied topics including Tibet, China-India border dispute, Hindutva and Islamophobia, identity politics in Tanzania, and nationalism.

This episode focuses on the academic journey, and challenges, of Tibet, China, and India in International politics and further discussed the Challenges faced by Tibetans in Exiles.

00:43 – How did you grow interested in Tibetan politics, academia, and activism?

04:55 –Overview of a book the book Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination by Professor Dibyesh Anand.

08:44 – What are the challenges/pressures to face working in Tibet?

14:29 – China’s Influence on Western Universities

16:32 – What is the significance/centrality of Tibet in the India and China border dispute?

22:16 – Future status of Tibetan Government in Exile.

28:05 – Colonization with Chinese Characteristic politics of (in)security of Xinjiang and Tibet

32:03 – Colonial Boarding Schools in Tibet