I´m safely back in McLeod Ganj. This evening we enjoyed another quality dinner at Chonor Lodge before heading to the main temple. They are setting up for a meeting/demonstration and hunger strike in memory of those Tibetans who have died for an independent Tibet starting tomorrow. There are several very graphic photos of tortured victims placed on a small shrine. Too sad. The streets are quiet tonight. There will be no celebrations for the Tibetan New Year. Can you imagine the Scots not celebrating Hogmanay?
You can read the New Year´s message from His Holiness the Dalai Lama by clicking here.
We have bought a bottle of Indian red to toast the New Year and will light candles on the balcony. Indeed India has started to produce drinkable wine - the Satori merlot is very passable.
Tomorrow I am on my first photographic assignment for the local news magazine “Contact” - covering the events at the temple so it´s an early start tomorrow.
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