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They string brilliantly colored flags from the mountaintops here in this land of impossibly crisp blue skies.

Last year around this time, a television news channel quoted His Holiness the Dalai Lama as saying that he is willing for Tibet to be a part of China. This shocked many Indians. One of them happened to be the landlord of my Indian college friend living in Pune.

Is it possible that the Dalai Lama will realize his attempt this time to visit South Korea next year for attending to religious affairs? It is currently hard to tell because the issue must be resolved diplomatically rather than religiously in light of the relations between Seoul and Beijing.

I have never been hated by anybody more than this dog: this dog barks at me with extra enthusiasm and aggression making me a villian in front of the people lazing around in the neighbourhood.

A four-man delegation from the Tibetan government-in-exile visited China last month -- the third time since September 2002 that a special envoy of the Dalai Lama has met with the Beijing authorities.

The Dalai Lama has put substance to what he expects for Tibet in the future when he clearly expressed himself against independence from China even though, as he says, many Tibetans including his own brother

The first Britain or British-India's relationship with Tibet began after her losing of trade ties with Nepal in the aftermath of rise of Gorkha rule in Nepal in 1769 AD.

There was a time when Tibet had a rich flora and fauna. Birds and animals of all kinds flew over and roamed the thick jungles and green pastures and lush meadows of the plateau.

In the bustling streets of Mcleod Ganj, an old pola went about making announcements on the microphone for a special prayer gathering the next morning. The occasion, he said, was because "Tibet-China Negotiations have started."

They are trekkers and seekers, backpackers and Buddhist followers, and they come here for both spiritual sustenance and for rugged hikes amid ancient monasteries and snowcapped mountains.