In Praise Of the Dalai Lama, The Telegraph

In the last week of March 1959—exactly sixty years ago—the Dalai Lama fled to India, after a rebellion by his fellow Tibetans had been brutally crushed by the Chinese military. He entered what is now Arunachal Pradesh, and was then known as the North East Frontier Agency. He was riding a yak, and suffering from acute dysentery. The Indian officials who welcomed him included a Sikh, Har Mander Singh, and a Hindu from the South, T. S. Moorthy. This was highly symbolic; for while the Communists...