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Escort Dies

January 3, 2022;

Naren Chandra Das, the last surviving member of the squad of Indian soldiers who escorted HH the Dalai Lama into India when he fled to India from Tibet in 1959, has died at the age of 85 at his home in Assam in northeastern India. He was 22 when he escorted His Holiness into Arunachal Pradesh. His Holiness and Das met again after nearly 60 years in 2017.

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