With the 2008 Olympics in China beginning this week, protests from the Tibetan refugee community in India are intensifying. But since the Tibetan spiritual leader—the 14th Dalai Lama—discourages Tibetans from picking up arms, a small but powerful segment of Tibetans have picked up another weapon—their pens.
Their language of choice—Tibetan, English, and surprisingly, now even Mandarin.
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This is one of my favorite pieces of work, and I’m glad to finally have it published. I wrote it over a year ago.
Read it here.
(P.S. I’m currently on a work vacation in Jodhpur. Work, because the people I’m with are working. Vacation, because I’m not. I’ll be back early next week.)
If you write 4 articles per month at $200 per assignment, you make $9,600 a year, I wrote on my blog a few days ago. If you write the same four articles at $2,000 per assignment, you make $96,000.
(See blog entry: http://www.mridukhullar.com/journal/2008/03/18/numbers/)
The trick is, a reader commented, to go from that $200 to […]
