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Free Tibet movement: Is anyone still sounding the emotive battle cry?

Three generations of Tibetans now live in India, a home away from home

‘India and China have an understanding when it comes to Tibet, which is to not talk about it’ --- Lobsang Sangay, President, Central Tibetan Administration
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‘India and China have an understanding when it comes to Tibet, which is to not talk about it’ --- Lobsang Sangay, President, Central Tibetan Administration

Veer Arjun Singh
The promised land of Chushi Gangdruk looks like the Shangri-la of fable. Snow-capped mountain peaks piercing through clouds, sparkling blue streams rushing through gorges and mists enveloping a fairytale township. But like a distant dream overwhelmed by gritty reality, this is a picture contained in a wooden frame. It hangs on a wall of Jangchup Dorjee’s coffee shop in the settlement of Majnu ka Tila, the heart of everything Tibet in Delhi.

“This is where I lived,” Dorjee points to a monastery in the picture, a modest hut on a hill top. The photograph of Ga-Kyegu city in Chushi Gangdruk,

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