SOME THOUGHTS ON THE UPCOMING KALON TRIPA ELECTIONS – by Jamyang Norbu
I have received some mild censure of late from friends and readers for my lack of enthusiasm for the upcoming kalon-tripa election. I did explain my position earlier in a number of my blogs that our present “partyless” political system was not a t
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