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India is home to more than 80,000 Tibetan refugees who fled the political and cultural repression that followed the invasion of their homeland by the People's Republic of China.

"The Third Eye, according to Indian mythology, symbolises a hidden power and potential unleashed on the world for the good of human society. In this context, Third Eye, the title of the festival, aptly describes the power of Asian Cinema," says the press brochure

Conium Doegar or Kolum Doegar as it is refereed to (a cottage owned by an Englishman by the name of Conium was situated there) is a little more than a kilometre’s walk uphill from the town of McLeod Ganj.

According to a legend in the freezing, mountainous region of northern Nepal, the five Pandava brothers, the heroes of the Indian epic Mahabharat, had passed through Tibet on their way to climbing up to heaven.

A mensch-in-the-making, his great aunt had pronounced on the day of his bar mitzvah. It wasn't just his flawless Hebrew. Or that he looked so all-American in his midnight blue suit from Barneys with his sandy- blond curls combed flat beneath his yarmulke.

The 19th batch of Tibetan Fulbright students will arrive in New York on August 11th, 2004 as part of The Tibet Fund's Tibetan Scholarship Program (TSP).

Less than two months ago, there was euphoria in the corridors of South Block as India 'celebrated' 50 years of the Panchsheel Agreement.

The Dalai Lama has said that the Olympic Games provide an opportunity for the participants to achieve distinction in fair and honest competition through mutual understanding, respect and trust.

It is known as the "Great Firewall of China," and like its counterpart built centuries before, it is intended to block unwanted invaders from the outside world.

It may be stating the obvious to say the Greek government has banned Olympic spectators from bringing bombs to events, but it has also asked them to leave their skateboards, propaganda, small change and non-copyright Olympic T-shirts at home.