Well, I am going to try again.
About Pico Ayer's book on the Dalai Lama, I think it is pretty good the way he talks about Dharamsala, the home of the exile Tibetans. But, this special little place in Himalchal Pradesh, India is also quite powerful in its dealings with me. I had a number of strange things happen there, like having $1000.00 taken out of my State Bank of India account by somebody using my ATM card that was supposedly hidden in my room at the Ketan Lodge. This means that somebody must have been going into my apartment on a regular basis and planned the theft. The police put up a good show but did nothing about getting the money back for me. This is something that I do not like about India at all, the corruption that is made to look like fatalism. At the bank all they could say was if it was done by my ATM card, there was nothing they could do to recoup any of the money.
Then, I get down to Delhi to leave to go to Kathmandu to get the Visa for India only to discover that I had been mislead by the Visa Officer in Pondicherry and had not really completed the foreigner registration on my 1-Y T Visa. The Visa Officer at the Delhi Airport said I was a cheat and a lyer and had not done anything at all the complete the required foreigner registration. I think they had been watching my activities in Dharamsala, especially some of the work that I was doing with traumatized monks and decided to stop it.
Stop for now.
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