Inside Chanakya's Mind Aanvikshiki and The Art of Thinking

White Crane Lend Me Your Wings a line from a poem by the Sixth Dalai Lama in which he consoles his followers banished by the Manchu in 1720 speaks through the title of Dr T.Y. Pemba’s novel as a wistful plea for the return of exiled Tibetans to their cherished homeland. This long awaited novel dramatizes the recent history of eastern Tibet bringing the human story of resistance to colonial conquest and a clash of worldviews to the fore.-Tsering Shakya Historian and Professor (Univ. of British Columbia)Author of The Dragon in the Land of Snows A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947Tsewang Pemba’s story telling is dramatic intricate and powerful with flashes of the erotic the sordid the mystical and the brutal. He offers important insights into the real tensions at the root of China’s still-unfinished attempt to absorb Tibet into itself sixty years ago. Drawing on his own lived experience of Tibetan culture as well as on the extraordinary life of the Scots missionary George Patterson among guerrilla fighters in eastern Tibet-together with a nod to the moral questions posed by Dostoevsky’s ‘Grand Inquisitor’-Pemba shows just how complex and incompatible were the multiple ideals brutalities and passions which must have driven events at that time and perhaps still do.-Robert Barnett Director of Modern Tibetan Studies (Columbia Univ.)Author of Lhasa Streets with Memory About the Author Dr Tsewang Yishey Pemba was born at Gyantse in Tibet in 1932. His father a Tibetan cadre officer in the British Trade agency brought him out of Tibet for formal schooling at the age of nine and enrolled him in the Victoria Boys School at Kurseong near Darjeeling in 1941.He was the first Tibetan to become a doctor and surgeon in Western medical science from the University of London in 1955. He was awarded the prestigious Hallet Prize by the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh in 1966. Dr Pemba also founded the first hospital of Bhutan in 1956 and was a member of the Bhutan delegation to WHO in Geneva in 1989.Dr Pemba has written the first Tibetan-English novel Idols on the Path (1966) and an autobiography Young Days in Tibet (1957) in English. He passed away on 26 November 2011. He is survived by four children.