Shongka*, a Tibetan living in exile, recalls how listening to the Tibetan services of VOA and RFA during his childhood in Tibet regaled the day, connected Tibetans with the outside world, and sustained hopes for freedom, no matter how distant, for a people long deprived of their most basic human rights.
(TibetanReview.net, Mar30’25) – Growing up in Tibet in the 1990s, my nights were filled with the quiet hum of my grandfather’s old wooden radio. As the sun disappeared behind the mountains and the streets of Lhasa settled into silence, he would begin his nightly ritual. With careful hands, he would close the windows, latch the doors, and take his seat beside the radio, its edges worn smooth from ...





