Today was the anniversary celebration for the Tibetan Children’s Villages – founded 46 years ago, at the request of His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, to take care of Tibetan refugee children coming over the mountains to India, following China’s assertion of control over the Tibetan plateau. As I arrived on foot, His Holiness the Dalai Lama was speaking to the assembled crowd of many hundreds on the playing field at Upper TCV. In Tibetan, of course. I listened for a short while, and looked at the children arrayed across the playing field in colorful costumes, and then pressed on to the AirJaldi auditorium. Nawang Dorjee, education director of TCV was the first official speaker at AirJaldi and introduced us to the background of TCV (photo).
We had a noon lunch, served on leaves and eaten by hand – rather unusual for me – being a westerner, this was probably the first time I had eaten anything like rice and saucy Indian food by hand since I was two years old.
I made copius notes on the keynote speechs, including Rodger Dawson, Richard Stallman and Dave Hughes, and will have some comments later on, but I think that since the “slides” of each of the presenters will be available online later on, I will actually skip that for the moment.
It might be of more interest for you to follow the various blogs, vlogs and podcasts that are coming out of AirJaldi, and will probably (like mine) also continue and be updated following the close of the formal sessions. I put a sign-up sheet on the door and here is what it picked up:
- blog.absorb.it
- dharmatv.blogspot.com
- podtech.net/india
- cren.crew.c-base.org
- www.medienbronner.de
- ryanishungry.com (video)
- www.comon.dk
- shelm.com/blog
- (your blog here…)
Also see the main AirJaldi webcast (video using Windows Media Player) during the hours we’re live (9am to 5:30pm India time).
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