TOUR KUSHAL NAGAR 2022
The 14th Dalai Lama on Friday thanked Karnataka for giving home to thousands of exiled Tibetans since 1959. "We Tibetans never forget others' kindness and it is our duty to thank Karnataka and India for being kind to us (Tibetans) and helping Tibetan refugees thrive," the 83-year-old Nobel laureate said addressing the "Thank You Karnataka" event here. Organised by the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), the event was to mark 60 years of Tibetan community's exile in the country. After China annexed Tibet in 1950, thousands of Tibetans, including monks, were forced to flee the mountain country and settle in India as refugees. The Dalai Lama also fled to India from Tibet after a failed uprising against the Chinese rule in 1959. Since then, India has been home to over 100,000 Tibetans majorly settled in Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh among other states. Apart from former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru who supported the Tibetan refugees' resettlement in Ind