Tibet in 49 Seconds - Karsh Kale Interview

digitaldharmafilms.org interviewed Karsh Kale with Wasfia Nazreen in April 2008 at the Phoenix Hotel in SF.

Karsh Kale has played alongside and worked with some of the world's top artists, including Sting, Zakir Hussain, Baaba Maal, Herbie Hancock, Bill Laswell, and Ustad Sultan Khan.

Born of Indian parents, and brought up in the U.S., Kale has long played Indian classical music on the tabla. Currently, he leads one of New York's coolest ensembles, and his monthly spins at Paisley and Joe's Pub are some of the hottest tickets on the New York scene.

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[Rhizomio]

You're hopelessly deceived if you maintain faith in 'democracy'. It's awfully fashionable to plug some hole in ones identity with some Free Tibet stance, but what do you think the result of DL reclaiming power be? Free and fair elections? No. It'd mean a US military base on the Himalayan plateaux and several high profile mineral extraction contracts going to mostly US and possibly some EU multinationals. And the peasants would once again get to indenture their offspring to their god-king.

[MissingVoices77]

CCP might have brought some materialistic prosperity to a few hundred million Chinese, they have the heritage of the biggest murder in human history and the still bring damage to China, the Chinese and the countries they occupy.

If the CCP would stop to exits and democracy would have given a chance a new and brighter future would appear for the Chinese, truthfulness will win of the lies, humanity will win of brutality, love would win of hostility.

[Rhizomio]

I appreciate and respect your view on this matter, however you show a misconception regarding the nature of Chinese politics: it is not a system of legislature rather than one of human relationships, and as such is flawed by definition, however the alternative is totally dehumanised society. Also, although democracy as it is used in Western propaganda is lacking in China, Chinese politicians are demogogues on most issues. If you think that if the CCP lost power all would change, think again.

[MissingVoices77]

Part 2

Even economy would have flourished, like now in India. India is a stable country, China not. China looks stable from the outside,

but the inside is held together by the repressive force of the PLA and the police. I China remains unable to make peace with itself

it will blast!

[MissingVoices77]

Part 1

You could not imagine what it was like for the Tibetans to be occupied by a brutal Chinese regime, You had no idea about the lies of the CCP, no idea about the immense suffering that China successfully tries to hide. If Russia had taken Tibet, Tibet would also have suffered under Stalin, but Tibet would then now already for 20 years be a free country. If India Had Taken Tibet, Tibet would have gained autonomy and cultural and human rights would have been respected.

[MissingVoices77]

Chinese politics for real???

They are one enormous lie!

Ooh please study history and learn about the brutality of the Chinese occupation, there is no excuse for that and the harrasment keeps continuing. You just do not want to see the truth of the Human Rights abuses, Tibet reminds us on the lack of morality we have.

And BTW Tibetans under Indian rule happy and prosper. Also the Tibetans under Chinese rule have the right to be happy.

[MissingVoices77]

Time to forget your preconceived ideas,

and learn about the sad story of Tibet,

I mean without the CCP propaganda!

[Ganeschar]

@Rhizomio -shut up you are borring me with your stipidity.

[Rhizomio]

Also, if Tibet wasn't annexed by the PLA, the Tibetans would be under Indian or Russian administration. If the Indians had gone in Tibet would still be in abominable poverty, if the Russians had taken over the theocracy would've suffered a similar fate.

We don't live in a world of happy happy fairies. Politics is real.

[Ganeschar]

@Rhizomio Who has the head in the sand :))