How Did You Get Your Parents to Work on Roads?

Around 80,000 tibetans followed the dalalama to india. And your parents were basically conscripted into working on doing road work in northern india. Imin my parents generation, they don't speak any english at all. They don't speak local hindi, and theyave never really been outside tibet. So, you know, what can they do? The only thing they could do was the road construction at high altitude. All of a sudden, india now had to man a very large international border to protect themselves by chinese against the chines.