Thank you. Last summer, I hosted a dinner party and one of my guests walked in wearing cowboy boots that she had bought in a secondhand shop. And just like that, the dinner stopped being about food.Suddenly, we were talking about boot stories. One person told about his favorite pair of boots that were way too small, but he squeezed his feet in them anyway. Another person recalled working for months as a teen in East Berlin to buy a pair of shiny white patent leather boots and how powerful she felt when she ...

[music] >> I'm not Tibetan. I did not grow up in the Himalayas. I was born and brought up in a small village in the southern state of Kerala. Yet, for the last several years, I have been fascinated by and have been studying a part of the world I have never been to. And I might not be able to either. The rooftop of the world, the water tower of Asia, Tibet. Today, I'm standing in front of you not as an expert. I'm not one. I'm not speaking as a geopolitical strategist or an analyst or a spokesperson. No. Tod ...