THE STORY BEHIND THE MAN WHO RECEIVED HIS

HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA IN 1959

1857, coerced by the East India Company, Ram, a young low-

profile astrologer, flees Awadh because he dares to predict about a

Gora Sahib and the East India Company.

He struggles hard to reach Assam. Takes the humongous river

route, largely in a row boat from Allahabad to Tezpur via Chittagong,

sailing across, the mighty Ganges-Padma-Brahmaputra-Meghna, the

Bay of Bengal and then to Tezpur, again via the Bay of Bengal,

Meghana, Padma and the Brahmaputra changing a dozen row boats.

Later, Kalachakra … the wheel of time settles the karmic scores in

this ‘Root to Karma-Bhoomi’ story by giving his progeny Kamakhya

Prasad Tripathi, then a minister in the Assam Cabinet, the lifetime

opportunity to receive the Dalai Lama on behalf of the Government

of India when he flees Tibet with his retinue on 18th April 1959. The

narration unfolds the golden conversation between Dalai Lama and

Kamakhya Prasad Tripathi hitherto not told.