Children play after school at the Indo-Tibetan colony of New Aruna Nagar, where they learn first in Tibetan then in English. Tibetan refugees are not allowed to return home if they are born in India. Photo by Han Zhang.
NEW DELHI—In early March, the Indian government announced that it would increase the armed forces surveilling its Tibetan border by approximately 25 percent by the end of 2015. The Indo-Tibetan Border Police is in charge of guarding the frontier with China, and was created in 1962 after a war opposing the two countries. This new Indian deployment of armed forces comes only a few weeks before Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, is expected to visit the Chinese President, Xi Jinping. Regarding the controversial territory of Tibet, India and China remain friendly, but cautious. Grégoire Molle and Adélie Pontay report.
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