Mcleod Ganj warms up for the Cause

Sleeping on the streets of Mcleod Ganj in late November is definitely not a thought to salvage or a picture to frame, yet huddled up inside the blue tent, the hunger strikers woke up to smiles and a cozy ambience of their nationalism

Buddhists back more powerful Kremlin

If anyone in Russia should be expected to defend local self-rule against a new Kremlin bid to centralize power, it is the people of the unique Republic of Kalmykia — the only predominantly Buddhist region in Europe.