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The Regional Tibetan Youth Congress started a 24-hour long hunger strike outside the DC office here in support of the demands raised in the freedom march that started from Dharamshala on February 11 and is scheduled to reach Delhi on Wednesday.

The Tibetans communities and friends of Tibet in Minnesota will commemorate the 45th uprising day of Tibet with march from Downtown Minneapolis to State Capitol, St. Paul and 8 hrs hungerstrike at downtown Minneapolis will also be observed.

Forty-five years after the Dalai Lama fled Tibet in fear of his life, China's communist leaders show little sign that he will be allowed back any time soon, fearing his return would spark separatist activism.

After covering a distance of 540 Km (approximately) the Tibetan Youth Congress Freedom Marchers that started on Feb 11, 2004 from Dharamsala finally arrived in Delhi at 12 noon today.

A few hundred Tibetans and supporters gathered yesterday morning outside the Chinese Embassy here amid cold wind and sporadic rain to mark the 45th anniversary of the Tibetan national uprising day that falls on 10th March

Thousands of Buddhist devotees assembled in Dharamshala on Sunday to take part in a traditional prayer meeting addressed by Buddhist spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

Celebrating His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 50th year as a fully ordained Buddhist monk and pleading for his continued blessings, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) and the Tibetan people today offered a long life puja for His Holiness at Tsuklakhang in McLeod Ganj.

"Often I feel discouraged seeing today's youth. But sometimes they do surprise us with such knowledge, courage and love for one's country. So it is difficult to pass any judgment on them" says Tendar, a 78-year-old freedom Marcher from Hunsur

Tibetans living here in self-imposed exile have urged political parties gearing for elections in India, the United States and Taiwan to raise the Tibet issue.

In the first part of a two-part series 'Around Kumbun', Tenzig Sonam, a Tibetan poet and film-maker currently living in New York, goes inside a country he calls his home but does not recognize.