The attacks throw a region sundered by conflict into still deeper chaos as a volatile mix of rebels, government forces and ethnic militias jockey to control a vast and unforgiving stretch of semidesert that straddles the two troubled countries.
They snow the shop floor blind, anklefuls, silencing footfall, corkscrewing in blocks of sun — how light and illiterate with glee they settle.
The British Government never recognised that China had the right to march troops into Tibet to settle any issue between them. China’s suzerainty over Outer Tibet was only nominal.
She heated handpies and tofu in her off-campus apartment, and at her home in India, she heats momos, dehydrates mangoes and cooks whole, shelled peanuts.
