kullu tibetan spiritual leader the dalai lama who is living in exile since 1959 said on monday that there was no point in going home after 63 years and besides he preferred indiatalking to media at dharamshala seat of his governmentinexile in hps kangra district he claimed that things were improving in europe africa and asia and even china had become more flexible but india is the best he said and within india kangra is dear to me for indias first pm nehru had chosen it for me so thats my permanent residence nowin september he had said in an interaction with young leaders from various countries that he would prefer to die in a free and democratic india than in authoritarian china with chinese officials around his deathbed born in 1935 he had fled tibet in 1959 after chinese invasion this july he said in jammu that some chinese hardliners considered him a separatist but now he was not seeking independence now only wishing china to give a meaningful autonomy to tibet born as tenzin gyatso he had received the nobel peace prize in 1989 tnn