Poetic articulations of the Tibetan exile

February 25, 2016

Tenzin Tsundue is a Tibetan activist and poet and currently Visiting Fellow, Department of English, University of Delhi. His publications include Crossing the Border (1999), Kora: stories and poems (2002), Semshook: essays on Tibetan freedom struggle (2007), Tsengol: stories and poems of resistance (2012). His works have been widely anthologized. He has lectured and done speaking tours across the world in universities in Australia, the US, UK, France, Germany, Sweden. He has spoken at literary festivals in diverse locations including Delhi, Durban, and Jaipur. He is the recipient of the 2001 Picador-Outlook Prize for Non-Fiction.
Subasri Krishnan has been a filmmaker for more than a decade. She also heads the Media Lab of the Indian Institute for Human Settlement (IIHS). Her documentary films deal with contemporary politics. Her first documentary film “Brave New Medium” on internet censorship in South-East Asia, has been screened at film festivals, both nationally and internationally. The award-winning “This or That Particular Person” looks at the idea of official identity documents, and in that context, the Unique Identity number. The film was adjudged as the Best Short Documentary Film at the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK), 2013. Her new documentary film “What the Fields Remember” explores ideas of memory, violence, and justice through survivors’ narratives of the Nellie massacre.  As part of the Media Lab at IIHS, she teaches and curates the Urban Lens film festival.  Prior to film school, Subasri worked for the academic journal Seminar.
lecture will explore the mind of the exile and the development of the language articulating the exilic experience and intellectual enquiry. The lecture will be interspersed with story-telling and poetry reading. A screening of What the Fields Remember directed by Subasri Krishnan (followed by Q&A with the director)