It is high time that more than a hundred and fifty thousand Tibetans in exile in India leave the country which gave them and their temporal leader The Dalai Lama shelter fifty years ago and in turn incurred wrath of the powerful neighbour China. The Tibetans in exile may go the West where the enigmatic smiles have willing takers and the Dalai Lama is “the plaything of movie stars and millionaires”.

These Tibetans who have miserably failed to assimilate in the Indian mainstream too brought the machinations of the statecraft including dark intrigues and conspiracies along with them. The Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Dalai Lamas died young, some believed to have been poisoned. The predecessor to the present Dalai Lama, the XIIIth Dalai Lama, too barely escaped an assassination bid by his regent. The monastic elite lived off the labour and taxes of peasants and thwarted away every attempt to ameliorate the lot of common men. The Chinese assertion over Tibet changed the situation and brought development to the roof of the world. Even in India, the Dalai Lama is a prisoner of coterie in Dharmshala (Himachal Pradesh) in India where the Tibetan Government in exile is seated though no one has recognized this government, not even the USA or Great Britain.

In the emerging economic era of Chindia, these Tibetan Buddhists cannot be allowed to disrupt the increasing ties between the two Asian giants.