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Life, Death and Ganga
The film
starts with Amro going to
Varanasi to stay there for three days. In the first day his
eyes are captured by wonders of the city and its people. In the
second days his mind is captivated by the wisdom of a local
Boatman and the aloofness of Sasur and in the third day
he spends all his time with a foreign girl whom he had accidentally
met during the second day. It is during the third day that his heart
finds a new rhythm to beat. The attraction leads Amro to
confess to the foreign girl, Ruth, that he had actually come
to Varanasi to kill himself. He knew this city as the city of
death and believed that suicide is a fast way out of this world. The
confused Amro is stuck between life and death but has he
chosen the path of death or has the path chosen him?
Official website -
www.lifedeathganga.com
Dharamshala: Home In Exile
In 1949 the newly-established
communist China invaded Tibet. A year later, His Holiness
Dalai Lama was requested by the Regent, the Cabinet and the
National Assembly to assume full political authority though he was
only fifteen, three years short of traditional majority. For the
subsequent nine years, His Holiness the Dalai Lama strove to
achieve peaceful co-existence with the Chinese invaders.
However, this was impossible as the Chinese atrocities kept
on mounting, creating ever more disillusionment among Tibetans.
Tibetans aired their resentment to Chinese occupation
by staging armed, popular uprisings, which spread to the entire
nation and finally erupted in Lhasa on March 10, 1959.
 
The
Chinese responded violently to these uprisings. When the
situation became hopeless for Tibet, His Holiness was
requested to flee the country in order to carry on the Tibetan
struggle from the outside world. Escaping by night and in disguise,
His Holiness left Lhasa on March 17, 1959, crossing safely
into India on March 31, 1959 where he was warmly received and
given asylum and made Dharamsala, India his abode. On 10
December 1989 His Holiness was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Today, streams of Tibetan refugees from all over the world flock to
Dharamsala to receive blessings and teachings from His
Holiness the Dalai Lama
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Western and Indian tourists and
scholars come here to see the rebirth of an ancient and fascinating
civilization. The high altitude and cool weather contribute
physically to this recreation of the original Tibetan environment.
Dharamsala pulsates with the sights and sounds of old
Tibet which would be captured in the Documentary –
“Dharamsala: Home in Exile”. Though certainly more modern, life
is basically Tibetan in character.
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