The Tibetan Gaden Phodrang Foundation was set up by the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso in accordance with Article 80 of the Swiss Civil Code in 2015, in Zurich, Switzerland.
It promoted and maintained Tibetan culture, also funded short-term and long-term initiatives. It had funding but no commercial motive hence it was tax-exempt under the Canton of Zurich.
There was also a Gaden Phodrung Trust, it was a non-profit organisation established by the Dalai Lama in 2011, in Dharamshala, India.
These were Antara's weakest years, 2011 and 2015.
In 2011, the NRIs and Communist Indians were preparing for Military Sealift.
In 2015, AAP, probably advised by Arthur Bremer, came to power in Delhi. The consequences of both were with us, neither had the US Navy recovered from its HT setback nor had the Saddam-Ba'ath Party ideology disappeared from Delhi, as we discussed on August 7 ('Living in Orwellian Times').
Did the above imply that merely hankering for employment or even immigration would not solve Antara's worsening crisis around Chetla and the Alamo Girl? That Antara might have needed her own Trust and Foundation, where she could receive donations?
Except that she was not allowed an Aadhaar, that one document essential to exist in India, how would anyone be able to contribute to her? Antara was an atheist, she could propagate the legit lease's values, without any commercial motive but as a safeguard for democracies across the world. She would no longer be someone "constantly feuding with the Trumps and the Obamas", she'd have a defined role.
But Aadhaar stood in the way so let's analyse Aadhaar.
Increasingly, most individuals were coming round to the view that NRIs had gotten too close to the weapons design bureaus of the American defence firms for any change in the Aadhaar situation for Antara.
"NRIs were people of perception, they were often inaccurate as well. If they perceived or if it was their assessment that they had used various tech companies (including Tesla) to acquaint themselves with both DoD tenders and purchases as well as the American defence firms' requirements, they'd definitely keep preventing Antara from getting an Aadhaar. At most, the Indian State would appear authoritarian, the individual NRIs wouldn't take any blame."
Was British intelligence unable to understand the real implications of the Dalai Lama fleeing to India, crossing the Indian border on March 31, 1959? (Incidentally, March 31, 2012, was the last day at HT for the Beleghata honcho.)
Did the British not understand that the Dalai Lama incident would prove useful to the NRIs?
That the Indian Govt provided refuge and respect if any religious minority was in actual danger? That if BT and his family didn't get that respect, it was because their identity was altogether forged, that they had picked up gossip about the lease and the US military, maybe someone else's narrative, only so that Antara could pretend to be different from the Class of 1995?
If the above were true, then British intelligence, including the Mountbattens, had completely misunderstood JL Nehru, given he was the Prime Minister in 1959 and any politics around the Dalai Lama would be emanating from the INC.
It would be a hideous British intelligence failure, it might encourage Netanyahu to disregard the history of Palestine and kick out the British from any involvement in Israel or Gaza.
(Oh, Tibet had tons of lithium deposits so Elon Musk was apparently taking victory laps. Among the regulars at Zurich, Switzerland, included several individuals from the Class of 1995, Chetla and the Beleghata honcho, the last-named present in Zurich when Antara's father passed away in Nov 2010.)
August 8, 2025.
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