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		<title>How Many Self-Immolating Tibetans Does It Take to Make a Difference?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday morning in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, a Tibetan monk drenched in gasoline appeared in front of a Buddhist stupa popular among Tibetans and set himself aflame. At the time of writing, the young man, thought to be in his early 20s, is in critical condition. According to some reports, his fiery protest marks a grim milestone: it’s the 100th such self-immolation by a Tibetan to happen since 2009 (others suggest it’s the 99th or the 101st). Whatever the ghastly metric, the act has become the signature tactic in recent years of Tibetans voicing their frustrations with Chinese rule. It carries a haunting moral cry no suicide bomber can match. When one downtrodden Tunisian set himself alight in December 2010, the spark of his despair and anger kindled uprisings that swept across the Arab world. Yet, 100 Tibetan self-immolations — and many deaths — later, little has changed. (PHOTOS: The Dalai Lama: Six Decades of Spiritual Leadership) Part of the problem is where these protests occur. The overwhelming majority takes place within the borders of China, either in Tibet proper or in Tibetan areas of neighboring Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai provinces. Media access is heavily controlled and much of what we know comes from advocacy groups based outside. A white paper titled “Why Tibet Is Burning,” released last month by an institute affiliated with the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamsala, India, identifies by name 98 Tibetans who carried out self-immolations in China since February 2009. Many of those choosing to set themselves on fire are young teenagers and 20-somethings. They are farmers and aspiring clerics, nomads and students. In a foreword to the study, Lobsang Sangay, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Tibet’s exiles, urges Tibetans to “not to resort to drastic actions, including self-immolations, because life is precious.” But the study goes on to point the finger at Beijing: The reason [for all the self-immolations] lies in China&#8217;s massive policy failure in Tibet over the course of more than 60 years of its rule. The revolution that is brewing in Tibet<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=68973&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nepal: Plane Crashes Near Kathmandu, Killing 19 Passengers</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/09/28/nepal-plane-crashes-near-kathmandu-killing-19-passengers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kari Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A passenger plane bound for Nepal&#8217;s mountainous Everest region crashed after take-off from Kathmandu airport. At least 19 passengers are reported dead, including seven Britons. Trekking and adventure tourism is a key part of the Himalayan nation&#8217;s economy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=47365&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hindu Devotees Celebrate Krishna&#8217;s Birth</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/08/11/hindu-devotees-celebrate-krishnas-birth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 15:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kari Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Worshippers in India and Nepal commemorated the birth of deity Lord Krishna during the Janmashtami festival.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=39751&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As China Squeezes Nepal, Tibetan Escape Route Narrows</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/07/17/as-china-squeezes-nepal-tibetan-escape-route-narrows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niharika Mandhana / Dharamsala</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the bus crept into this quiet town in the foothills of the Himalayas, Tsultrin Lhamo finally felt free. For the 20-year-old Tibetan fleeing a homeland under Chinese rule, her arrival in the Dalai Lama’s adopted hometown in India marked the end of a treacherous overland journey and, she hoped, the start of a new life. China’s growing crackdown on religious freedoms, from the imprisonment of Tibetans possessing portraits of their spiritual leader to the ironfisted control of monasteries by Chinese armed forces, had made life too difficult to stay behind, she says. Like those before her, she paid a Nepalese guide to lead her through the mountainous terrain that connects western China to its neighbor, Nepal. With help from UNHCR, the U.N.&#8217;s refugee agency, she secured safe passage from Kathmandu to India. It was a grueling journey that spanned four months and three countries. She traveled on foot, took shelter in trees and dodged Chinese and Nepalese patrols. Still, she considers herself lucky. “So many people are desperate to leave Tibet,” she says. “But it has become almost impossible now.” Since the Dalai Lama fled in 1959, Nepal has played a critical role for the Tibetan exile community, providing safe haven and a passageway to India. But in recent years, Nepal&#8217;s hospitality has waned — and the reason, many say, is China&#8217;s growing influence on the country&#8217;s political elite. Since 2008, when an uprising convulsed Lhasa shortly before the Beijing Olympics and was violently suppressed by Chinese authorities, the number of Tibetans making the journey to India has plummeted. From the early 1990s until 2007, some 2,500 Tibetans were arriving in India each year. In 2008, that number dropped to under 600, and has since hovered at about 800 refugees per year. A key reason, observers say, is that China has significantly tightened security, not only inside Tibet but also along the border with Nepal, choking off crucial escape routes. (MORE: With an Eye to India, China Courts Nepal) But China’s strategy for containing Tibet’s fight for greater independence<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=35967&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nepal&#8217;s Crisis: Can a Broken Nation Remake Itself?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/07/06/nepals-crisis-can-a-broken-nation-remake-itself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deepak Adhikari / Kathmandu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, a gleaming white edifice in the Baneshwor neighborhood of Kathmandu evoked hope and optimism. The Chinese-built hall for Nepal’s Constituent Assembly, a 601-member body tasked with writing a constitution for the fledgling republic, was supposed to be the site of the country’s remaking after a decade-long Maoist insurgency that ended in 2006. Instead, after yet another deadline for Nepal’s feuding lawmakers to draft a new constitution passed on May 27, the area has taken on a worn, deserted look. Gone are the thousands of protesters who converged here; so too, the hordes of security forces in riot gear. An eerie silence pervades life in Kathmandu, a capital city that has grown accustomed to political deadlock and dysfunction. Nepal&#8217;s uneasy calm hides crises that are deepening every day. The major dispute centers around how this country of 26.6 million will be reshaped. That question has remained unanswered since the peace process began under U.N. auspices six years ago, marking the end of a nearly three-century-old Hindu monarchy and the awkward beginnings of a secular republic. (MORE: Nepal&#8217;s rebels with a cause.) The ruling Maoists are demanding a federalist state that gives power to regional groups. The most vocal proponents of federalism hail from the country&#8217;s southern plains and the eastern hills. They argue that federalism would help end centuries of discrimination they’ve felt from the capital and return power to ethnic groups that have been historically marginalized. The more centrist Nepali Congress (NC) and Unified Marxist-Leninist (UML), the country&#8217;s second- and third-largest parties after the ruling Maoists, argue that dividing country along regional and ethnic lines will sow the seeds of disintegration. But some of these parties’ own members, including representatives of the Madhesis—an ethnic group from the southern plains abutting India—have threatened to quit if their demands of federalism are not fulfilled. The political crisis thus pits those who can benefit from a federal Nepal against those who fear they will lose out, says Jhalak Subedi, who heads the Nepal South Asia Center, a Kathmandu-based think tank.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=30053&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South Asia Celebrates Holi</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/03/07/south-asia-celebrates-holi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas Hegel McClelland</dc:creator>
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		<title>Not Just a Pakistani Problem: India&#8217;s Army Chief Challenges His Own Government</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/01/17/not-just-a-pakistani-problem-indias-army-chief-challenges-his-own-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jyoti Thottam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Side by side on the front page of today’s Hindu newspaper are two stories about conflict between the Army and the civilian government in two South Asian countries. One of them, of course, is Pakistan, a country whose political leaders have struggled for most of its history to keep the Army in check.  What’s the other? Bangladesh,  where an Army-backed caretaker government ruled for two years? Sri Lanka, where a former Army chief is serving three years in prison for implicating the government that appointed him in war crimes? Or perhaps Nepal, where the biggest obstacle to political stability is integrating former Maoist rebels into the Army that once fought against them? The answer, surprisingly, is India, a country that has never come close to military rule in its 64 years of independence. Civilian control of the military is one principle that unites every political party, and one that the Indian Army proudly submits to. And yet it has come to this: General V.K. Singh, India’s current Army chief, has filed a petition with the Supreme Court challenging the very government that appointed him. The issue before the court is an arcane bureaucratic tussle over his date of birth; underneath the surface is a story about the hidden decline of an institution that was once the most respected in India. Like many people in India, Singh lacks a birth certificate, so he has relied on his school records to establish his date of birth. The records he submitted when he joined the Army included a discrepancy — two dates, a year apart. Singh maintains that he was actually born in 1951 and has used that date on his passport and other personal documents. The 1950 date, he says, was a clerical mistake on one record. This kind of discrepancy is also common and might never have become a problem for Singh, except that 1950 is the date he used when he entered the upper ranks of India’s military leadership. India’s top brass, like their peers almost anywhere, jockey fiercely for<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=15364&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Security Chief Goes on Tour—How Is Asia Reacting?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2011/08/23/chinas-security-chief-goes-on-tour%e2%80%94how-is-asia-reacting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah Beech</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past week, as I’ve traveled across Asia, I’ve discovered an unlikely partner in my continental peregrinations: China’s security chief Zhou Yongkang. The senior Chinese envoy’s travels have taken him to Nepal, Laos, Cambodia and Tajikistan. The final stop is Mongolia, where Zhou is expected to head on Tuesday. In Zhou’s wake, the narrative has tended to follow the same plot-line: first, China’s state media proclaims “mutually beneficial cooperation” and “longstanding friendship” between Beijing and the local government. Then a raft of trade deals or bequeathing of military goodies is announced. Finally, an undercurrent of unease follows, with regional analysts wondering about China’s growing economic and security might. Last Saturday, Zhou was in Cambodia, where he met with Prime Minister Hun Sen. In addition to various mining, road-construction and farming deals, China has agreed to supply nearly $200 million in helicopters to Cambodia. Beijing is already the Southeast Asian nation’s largest foreign investor, and Hun Sen, who has quietly evolved into one of Asia’s longest-serving strongmen, has been vociferous in his support of China. His enthusiasm for Chinese largesse stands in marked contrast to his feelings toward Western donors who tend to attach pesky strings like human-rights commitments to their aid. The Phnom Penh Post quoted a local researcher worrying that “Cambodia will become subservient to China.” Before that in Nepal, Zhou oversaw the signing of more than $50 million in trade and aid. Sandwiched between India and China, Nepal has turned into a kind of proxy ground tussled over by the two Asian giants. The Chinese delegation arrived just days after Nepal’s Prime Minister had resigned. Political dysfunction, though, didn’t stop the caretaker government from trying to profit from what China’s 60-person delegation had to offer. During the Chinese security czar’s stay, members of Nepal’s Tibetan refugee community were warned against expressing any sentiment that might be considered “anti-China.” (Zhou’s previous political duties have included serving on a Beijing committee that deals with Tibet; he helped oversee a crackdown on Tibetan activity in the southwestern Chinese province of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=8911&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Wikileaks Cables Reveal India Foreign Policy Tensions</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2011/03/15/new-wikileaks-cables-reveal-india-foreign-policy-tensions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jyoti Thottam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Indian newspaper The Hindu has published an absorbing, multi-story Wikileaks package today about 5,100 diplomatic cables covering everything from India-Pakistan relations after the November 2008 terror attacks to the end of the Sri Lankan civil war and influence-peddling in Nepal. There are also some revealing behind-the-scenes details of India&#8217;s internal power plays, which ought to explain why New Delhi so often seems to be sending mixed or contradictory foreign policy signals. The Hindu’s arrangement with Wikileaks —the first with a publication in Asia — is also a journalistic coup. Most of India’s other newspapers and television channels are in a furious, sensationalistic race to the bottom, but The Hindu is putting down its marker as the home of serious journalists like Siddharth Varadarajan and P. Sainath. Here are juiciest bits from the first tranche of cables: 1. The U.S. Embassy in New Delhi has a keen grasp on some of the divisions within the Indian bureaucracy. In a cable about M.K. Narayanan then India’s National Security Adviser, former Ambassador David Mulford notes: Along with Principal Secretary TKA Nair, Narayanan constitutes what is now a Keralite &#8220;mafia&#8221; in the PMO. In a bureaucratic culture dominated by North Indian Hindi speakers, this Keralite lock on the PM&#8217;s inner bureaucratic circle represents something of an anomaly, which could in the long term create new faultlines around the Prime Minister. The dominance of civil servants from the southern state of Kerala is, indeed, common chatter in diplomatic circles, particularly since it has continued well after this cable, with the appointment of Nirupama Rao as foreign secretary and Shivshankar Menon as National Security Adviser. But I think the repurcussions are even more important than Mulford&#8217;s warning that Prime Minister may become isolated from the rest of his government. India’s top-ranking foreign service officers — not all of them from Kerala — have become another power center in the government, sometimes working at odds to the Prime Minister’s stated policy positions. 2. The State Department naively tried to use the investigation into the Nov. 26,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=1386&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Bihar Went from Basket Case to Case Study</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2011/03/09/how-bihar-went-from-basket-case-to-case-study/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jyoti Thottam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I visited Bihar for the first time in 1998, when its reputation for lawlessness was well-deserved. Traveling by train from Delhi, you knew exactly when you crossed the border into Bihar. That’s when groups of aggressive, ticket-less riders suddenly jumped onto the train, comfortable in the knowledge that, in Bihar, no one would challenge them. A while later, the train stopped for several hours, during which time an explanation eventually made its way to the passengers. There was a body on the tracks, and we would have to wait for someone to claim it. That makes Bihar’s turnaround all the more dramatic. After Nitish Kumar took office as chief minister in 2005, the state has enjoyed double-digit economic growth, and he is credited with reducing crime, improving school enrollment and improving Bihar’s woeful roads. The state is doing so well that it is even drawing migrant labor from neighboring Nepal; the flow of people used to go the other way. Kumar was recently re-elected with an even stronger mandate, and I wanted to see the so-called “Nitish Effect” for myself. In the capital, the main difference is the number of people, particularly women, walking around freely after dark. Patna is bustling, but unlike in the rest of India,  cities are not the engines of growth in Bihar; villages are. There, the link between law-and-order, infrastructure and growth becomes very clear. Beekepers in the village of Patiyasa told me that they could now transport their boxes of bees around the state, without fearing that the bad roads would wreck their cargo or that local gangs would rob them along the way. Those two changes have immediately improved their profits, putting more money into their pockets, which some of them have spent on the shiny new motorbikes parked outside their houses. Small vegetable growers in Yusufpur and Khirodharpur say that the safer, smoother roads have made their whole families more productive. Women can now safely travel by themselves to bring vegetables to market or sell milk from their buffaloes to the local<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=1119&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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