How come, the cables demanded, that Laurence P. Atkinson (a popular member of the Delhi Press crops representing a few British publications) alone had given a vivid account of the Dalai Lama’s train in the remote Himalayas by the simple expedient of chartering a plane and flying over the mountains? The reality was that the whole area was a strictly enforced “No Flying” zone. “Uncle Atki”, as we called him, had copied his story from a book on the flight to India of a previous Dalai Lama in 1905.
The writer is a Delhi-based political commentator
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