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BOOK REVIEW: The Tibetan Suitcase

By Tsering Namgyal Khortsa. Blackneck Books, Dharamshala. softcover, 248 pp.

Feb 22, 2020
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Reviewed by: Abhyudai Dhawan 

In the protest poem “My Tibetanness,” the Dharamshala-based contemporary poet, writer and activist Tenzin Tsundue vocalizes the resentiment inherited by his people: ‘I am Tibetan./ But I am not from Tibet./ Never been there./ Yet I dream/ of dying there.’/

Dawa Tashi, Tsering Khortsa’s protagonist, emerges, as if from bardo, …

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