India, April 27 -- Jamyang Norbu is an elder statesman in the world of Tibetan letters in exile. While he is well-known in the Tibetan community as an ingenious playwright, provocative essayist, firebrand polemicist and indefatigable blogger, his major claim to fame in the international arena is his novel, The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes, published in 1999. The book - in which the author takes Sherlock Holmes to Tibet - won India's Crossword Book Award for Fiction. Norbu's latest magnum opus, Echoes from Forgotten Mountains: Tibet in War and Peace, aims to unravel the mysteries of Tibet's tumultuous history once and for all....