The number of those finishing college and university was not many, and those not returning to serve their exile community thereafter tended to be frowned upon as betrayers of the community s faith. There was hardly any who after finishing college or university education could not find job placement in the exile community. I was reminded of this historic and historical statement upon seeing a slim volume titled, Anything for Tibet, My Beloved Country . It is a fictional novel about life in present-day Tibet with the inevitable tale of courage and sacrifice. The writer is a young Tibetan, Thupten N Chakrishar.
China is once again a nation in turmoil, and in quest for long term stability.
The million dollar question is what kind of stability. Certainly not of the iron-fisted Maoist kind, for that would require the populace to be effectively insulated from all outside world influences, with all aspects of people s lives totally regimented to the drum beat of the communist authorities receiving their orders from an undisputed dictator. China has already come too far away from it all and there is no way it can go back. Nor can it be the stability of the Dengist kind, for that was merely transitional. The Communists, it seems, would fight to the end rather than submit to the will of the people.