Druktalk Podcast Drukthar Gyal

This week on Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar talks with Professor Carole McGranahan author of Arrested Histories: Tibet, CIA, Memories of a forgotten War at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Carole McGranahan is Professor in and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at University of Colorado, USA, and a scholar of contemporary Tibet and the Himalayas. She is author of Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and the Memories of forgotten War (2010), co-editor of Imperial Formation (2007), and Ethnographies of U.S Empire (2018), and editor of Writing Anthropology: Essays on craft and Commitment (2020). She is currently co-editing a volume on Ethics and Ethnography and finishing book about Theoretical Storytelling.


Conversations in details:

1. Can you talk about yourself and how you got interested in Tibet and Tibetan studies?

2. Before going into the details of the argument of your book Arrested Histories, Can you introduce to us a little bit about its historical background, for example the major historical period, agents, and events, especially 4R6R? for the audience who are not familiar with Tibetan history in general?

3. The name 4R6R might sound a bit unusual to some audience, can you elaborate on what it is and why it is named this way? what is the structure and declaration of (ཆུ་བཞི་སྒང་དྲུག)

4. Why do you entitle your book ‘Arrested histories’ – Tibet, CIA, and memories of a forgotten war? (short summary of the book’s main argument)

5. Why American Government, Nepal and Indian Government stop supporting the Chushi Gangdruk in1970s?

6. As you might have heard, recently a commercial film about 4R6R is being produced by a Tibetan crew and is soon to be released. Given these new developments, Do you think the arrested history of the Tibetan resistance is still under arrest or has it come to an official release?

7. Since the publication of your book thirteen years ago, What are your recent observations of the development of democracy, debates on non-violent resistance, and historical justice making in the Tibetan community in Exile?

8. Can you comment on the nowadays US government’s attitude to assisting Tibetan resistance/independence movement, as well as how Tibetan in exile perceive this assistance?

9. Let’s talk a bit about anthropological methods. As a woman and as a Western scholar, what sorts of obstacles and advantage do you find in your interviews and interactions with 4R6R veterans? (Challenges you faced during the field work)

10. Can you talk more about your current projects?


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This week on the Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar talks with Geshe Lobsang Monlam, Founder and CEO of Monlam Information Technology. We discussed Geshe's initial interest in information technology, particularly computers. We further discussed his works on Monlam Bodying, the Monlam dictionary, and the recent development of the Monlam AI. Additionally, it talks more about the future outcomes of Monlam Information Technology.

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This week on Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar talks with Tibetan Film Director and author Tenzing Sonam la, the most famous filmmaker in Exile. Over the thirty years, we have made popular films, including Dreaming Lhasa, Sun Behind the Cloud, The Sweet Requiem, and more. We discussed his life journey into filmmaking, its challenges, and his message to future Tibetan filmmakers.

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This week on Druktalk Podcast, Drutkhar talks with Ven. Yangten Rinpoche, Secretary of Gaden Prodang, private office of Dalai Lama office in Dharamshala.

We discussed his life and journey in Tibetan Buddhism, holding the highest degree, Geshe Lharampa, from Sera University in India. We also discussed his lifelong achievements, challenges, and fifteen years of service at Gaden Phodrag, the office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.



We also discussed the life and lifelong commitment of Dalai Lama to Human Beings, Religious harmony, the preservation of Tibetan culture, the promotion of ancient Indian wisdom, and many more.



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This week on the Druktalk Podcast, Drukthar talks with Professor Hon-Shaing Lau, author of The Genuine 'China version' of Tibet's History: Tibet has never been part of China since antiquity.

We discuss the significance and complexity of Tibetan and Chinese history in his research findings based on the Chinese classical history texts.
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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


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