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Tibet-free
Dharamsala had it coming, obviously. The swing of the media pendulum is vicious and whatever is lionised gets trashed, sooner or later. With the surfeit of Hollywood productions and personalities supporting the "Tibetan cause" of independence and/or autonomy, it was inevitable that someone would come along and question the way the cause was being pushed.
The Dalai Lama himself has not been spared the discomfort of adverse publicity. Only recently, writing in The Nation of New York, journalist Christopher Hitchens, who had trashed Mother Teresa earlier, came down heavily on the god-king and monk, something that has a lot to do with the kind of funding Dharamsala has been receiving over the years.