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Guest column: The Kindness of Strangers

The kindness of strangers Sometimes, when times are bad, we are comforted immeasurably by the kindness of strangers…. To begin, a quote from the Dalai Lama. “ When we face some tragic situation, it reveals the deeper human values of compassion. Usually people don’t think about these deeper human values but when they see their…

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Book review: The Noodle-maker of Kalimpong by Gyalo Thondup with Anne F Thurston

The Noodle Maker Of Kalimpong: The Untold Story Of My Struggle For Tibet by Gyalo Thondup with Anne F. Thurston  (Random House India). Jeremy Bernstein says in his 1987 New Yorker article: There is something profoundly moving about the Tibetan way of life.  About its religious essence. One feels instinctively that if this civilization were crushed…

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