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New Delhi. Indian federal government representatives will meet the Dalai Lama when he visits a sensitive border region controlled by India but claimed by China, officials said, despite a warning from Beijing that it would damage ties.
India says the Tibetan spiritual leader will make a religious trip to Arunachal Pradesh next month, and as a secular democracy it would not stop him from travelling to any part of the country.
China claims the state in the eastern Himalayas as "South Tibet," and has denounced foreign and even Indian leaders' visits to the region as attempts to bolster New Delhi's territorial claims.
A trip by the Dalai Lama, whom the Chinese regard as a dangerous separatist, would ratchet up tensions at a time when New Delhi is at odds with China on strategic and security issues and unnerved by Beijing's growing ties with arch-rival Pakistan.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration is raising its public engagement with the Tibetan leader, a change from earl
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Chinese Cultural Policies in Tibet: A Perspective from India
Indians have at least two vantage points from which to view what is happening in Tibet. Large parts of Himalayan India border Tibet, and the perspective from these regions is often different from the capital in New Delhi. Lay and monastic populations of Himalayan India, Bhutan, and Tibet have been closely knit in networks of kinship, religious patronage, pilgrimage, and trade for centuries. Seasonal migration was customary, as was travel for monastic education. Tibetans could enter British India without a passport or a visa.1 And Indian cities of Gaya, Sanchi, and Sarnath were important sites of pilgrimage for Tibetans, as was Kailash Mansarovar in Tibet for Indian pilgrims. Thus, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama trod along the path of many Tibetans before him when he escaped into India on March 31, The large Tibetan diaspora that followed him into exile as a result of China’s crackdown on cultural freedoms in Tibet is often r
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Not just Tiger vs Rory
Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy have brought extra attention from beyond the typical golf fans to the 76th Masters Tournament ( April) but they are far from the only players with a chance to win the green jacket.
There’s an intensity at Augusta National Golf Club, Georgia, US, this week far beyond the heat that led flower blooms to fall early, diminishing the course’s natural beauty but removing none of the stern test offered by the year’s first major.
“With the top players winning big events and Tiger coming back into form, it has whipped up a bit of a frenzy,” World No. 3 Lee Westwood says.
“A lot of people can win this week,” McIlroy says. “There’s a lot of great people in this field and a lot of people with great chances to win. I’m just looking forward to hopefully getting in contention and giving myself a chance.”
Westwood, a top-three finisher in five of the past 10 majors still seeking his first major title at 38, says nearly one-third of th