by Matthew Bennett
McLeod Ganj: it's one big perpetual festival of Tibetan independence.
Arriving in McLeod Ganj from anywhere else in India, you?d be forgiven for thinking you?d crossed a national border.
As the road winds up from Dharamsala, the signs start to appear. "Free Tibet? is sprayed across a wall, ?Tibet is not a part of China? on a banner at the side of the road, "Let?s get back to Tibet? stuck on a bus window.
The people have changed too.
Gone are the Indians in lungis smoking beedis, replaced by stocky Tibetans spinning prayer wheels and saffron-clad monks making their way to temple.
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