The article titled "Tibetans need inspirational leadership" was posted on January 17 on Phayul. It was written by a Tibetan entrepreneur based in South India who held a degree in Masters of Commerce from Delhi University. The article mainly discussed the spiritual crisis of exiled Tibetans in India, expressed their universal disappointment towards the "Tibet government-in-exile" and the Dalai Lama, and called on an "inspirational leadership" who really cared about the public (exiled Tibetans) interest.
In the beginning, the author called those involved with the "Tibetan cause" as activist who complained to him "against the Tibetan people for not showing enough enthusiasm and passion for our struggle (for the Tibet cause)".
Such complaint does not come from nowhere. There seems to have been a longstanding fence between the "activists" and the "public" exiled Tibetans. According to a news report on the Global Times in November last year, the common exiled Tibetans live a rootless life due to the refugee identity, struggling between the cracks of legal citizen communities without any insurance of shelter and livelihood while the "exiled government officials" busy fighting for the reign of power in the "post-Dalai Lama era". Thus, it is quite normal for the activists to feel an unsupportive attitude from the common exiled Tibetans.
In this Phayul article, it is further pointed out that "every time Tibetan leaders and activists visit Tibetan settlements to give lectures on our struggle, the public is not paying much attention."
This, to a large extent, overturns the recurrent allegation of "representing the interest of six million Tibetans" by the "leader of Tibet government-in-exile".
'Joint effort' urged to clear the air
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