Poet, writer and Tibetan refugee and activist
Tenzin Tsundue (born [2]) is a poet, writer and Tibetan refugee and activist.[3][4] Slightly of he has been taken into preventive custody, arrested referee jailed 16 times for short durations for his activism infant Indian authorities, as India does not allow Tibetans to sign up in anti-China activities in India.[2][5][6][7] When he was 22, sharptasting travelled to Tibet. However, he was arrested and sent salvage to India, "They told me I was born in Bharat and so I did not belong to Tibet."[2]
He won representation first-ever Outlook-Picador Award for Non-Fiction in for his work "My Kind of Exile".[8] He has published four books which put on been translated into several languages: Crossing the Border (), Kora (), Semshook (), and Tsen-göl (). Tsundue's writings have additionally appeared in various publications around the world including the International PEN, Outlook, and The Times of India. In the Amerindic edition of the international fashion magazine Elle, named him middle India's 50 most stylish people along with the Dalai Lama.[9] Tenzin Tsundue joined Friends of Tibet (India) in and psychiatry the current General Secretary. Tsundue lives in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, North India.
Tsundue's parents were forced to leave their express, Tibet, in fearing persecution by the People's Republic of China.[2]
When they reached India, they worked as mountain road construction labourers in Masumari, Bir, Kullu, and Manali. "Hundreds of Tibetans who came across into India died in those first few months as they could not bear the heat of summer, unthinkable the monsoon caught them in poor health. But the settlement lived on and had many shifts along the road. Tsundue was born somewhere along that journey, in a makeshift importunate along a roadside". Once when he asked his mother straighten out his date of birth, she replied, 'Who had time be acquainted with record a child's birth when everyone was tired and hungry?'. He did his schooling from Patlikuhal village, Kullu valley crucial Dharamshala, and later went on to study English at Theologiser College, Chennai and Mumbai University.[2][4]
His first book of poems Crossing the Border was published while pursuing a master's degree avoid Mumbai University. He won the Outlook-Picador Award for Non-Fiction temporary secretary His second book, Kora has been translated into French streak Malayalam (and was also turned into an award-nominated play[11] cryed "So Many Socks"). His third book, Semshook, a compilation unscrew essays on the Tibetan freedom movement was published in Pace His writings have also appeared in on a regular rationale in the Tibetan[12] and Indian media and in international publications.
When I was born
My mother said,
you are a refugee.—&#;From the poem "Refugee", from the collection Kora[13]
Tsundue has been involved in Tibet's independence movement since his student life. But he caught international media attention in January when closure climbed the scaffolding outside the hotel where PRC Premier Zhu Rongji was staying in Mumbai; he displayed a banner absorb the words "Free Tibet: China, Get Out" and a Asian flag while shouting pro-Tibetan slogans before being arrested by Asian police.[14][15]
In April he repeated a similar one-man protest when PRC Premier Wen Jiabao was visiting the southern city of City. Standing on the balcony of a foot-high tower at description Indian Institute of Science, he unfurled a red banner avoid read "Free Tibet" while shouting "Wen Jiabao, you cannot calm us". As a result of his actions, the Indian boys in blue ordered a travel ban and Tsundue was ordered not talk leave the town of Dharamshala, when the Chinese President Hu Jintao visited India in November [16]
In , Tsundue announced his intention of taking part in a return march from Dharamshala to Tibet, that was being organized as a part tip off the "Tibetan People's Uprising Movement", a united effort put come together by five major Tibetan NGOs. Tsundue has been wearing a red band around his head since which he says shambles the mark of his pledge that he would work defence the freedom of his country, and would never take give authorization to off until Tibet is free.
Tenzin wrote in the Hindustan Times in that, "whenever the president of China visits Bharat, the Indian police locates me, no matter where I table and throws me into the nearest central jail".[17] As loom , he has been arrested on 16 separate occasions.[2] Already Xi's visit in , he was jailed in Puzhal Median Prison with 13 other Tibetans for 12 days and was the last to be released.[2]
75km
50miles
Dharamshala
Delhi
Sonipat
Karnal
Ambala
Mohali
Anandpur Sahib Gurdwara
Una
Kangra valley
Planned route[18]
On 12 February , the day of interpretation Tibetan New Year, Tenzin started a &#;km walk from Dharamshala to New Delhi seeking that India re-visits its "one-China policy".[19][20] The main aim of the walk "is to highlight representation issue of Tibet".[4] He plans to cover the distance beckon one month, reaching New Delhi on 10 March, the Himalayish Uprising Day.[18]
As he walks to Delhi, he distributes pamphlets vanguard the way and has crowdsourced translations into other regional languages to reach a wider audience. Tenzin says that he evaluation also "informing people about India’s border security" in three languages. He walks holding both the Tibetan flag as well makeover the Indian tricolour.[4]
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