The Dalai Lama was supposed to speak at the Namami Brahmaputra festival venue at Kasomari Ghat but anticipating rain, the administration changed the venue. The Dalai Lama praised the Assam government for holding the festival. That is why both physically and spiritually, I am a son of India," said the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama said despite remarkable changes in many fields, the caste system continues to hold back India. The Dalai Lama today reiterated that instead of addressing him as His Holiness or as a reincarnation of the previous Dalai Lama, he preferred to consider himself as a simple human being.

Source: The Telegraph April 02, 2017 21:56 UTC