Think Tibet

We formed Think Tibet as a platform for Tibetans and Indians to work together to contribute to the community in exile. One avenue we have chosen is publishing of children’s books that will reflect the society in exile. As a tribute to the story tellers of Tibet whose tales regaled listeners’ young and old, our books will be published under the imprint, Lama Mani Books. Chief Representative of CTA releasing the two new title of Lama Mani Books Our first two titles were released on June 26th, 2009 as part of a Tibetan exhibition in Bangalore, Rewa - 50 years of Hope. To release the books, we had the honourable Kunga Dorje, Chief Representative of the Southern Tibetan settlements. Speaking on the occasion, he expressed his happiness at seeing something that was done for Tibetan children. “The contents of these two books are unique. A lot of people know very little about how Tibetans live in exile,” he said, adding that however small the publishing house, the books are ‘very important and ...

Progress in Rewa – 50 years of Hope The teams from Think Tibet and 1.Shanthi Road have been meeting regularly to discuss, follow up and assign tasks. We had made one visit to the Tibetan settlement at Bylakuppe and had preliminary discussions with the Representatives there. We had a tour of the settlements and identified elements to be used in our exhibition. The Think Tibet team had also been collating information for a book publishing project and it gave us a head start to the project. In the last few weeks, we have worked on • Research – interviews of Tibetans in Bangalore and in neighboring settlements • Travels to settlements for research and documentation • Planning and design of the exhibition space • Assigned all collaborators their tasks with deadlines. • Collaborating with local artists and craftspeople for the exhibition • Fabrication of material such as prayer wheel, terracotta lamps, wooden stands We are also working towards a bi-lingual publication (English/Kannada (local...