New Delhi, July 26 -- A few years ago, a couple of colleagues and I interviewed the 14th Dalai Lama for a special issue of Mint to mark Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary. It's easily one of the highlights of my career-the Dalai Lama (who turned 90 earlier this month) spending nearly two hours chatting and laughing with us about everything from science, philosophy and freedom to mobile phone use and dreams he'd had. But a part of the interview we didn't have the chance to use related to his views on education, especially women's education and equality. For the Dalai Lama, who has been living in exile in India since 1959 when he was 23, painstakingly recreating institutions to keep Tibetan Buddhist culture and education alive and relevant to...