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Well don't they say money knows no colour and no boundaries! In a week that saw China running the much-talked-about train to Tibet, amongst reports of protests from some section of Tibetans, a colleague vacationing in Karnataka came across an interesting phenomenon. Driving towards the Namdroling Monastery in Bylakuppe, one of the largest Tibetan settlements in Karnataka, she saw walls carrying the message: "Do not buy Chinese goods."

But just outside the monastery is a market complex frequented by tourists where the colleague found that almost all shops had huge stocks of `Made in China' goods. Unable to believe that the Tibetans were themselves flouting what they wanted others to do, she queried some shopkeepers who just smiled sheepishly.

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