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"A N   E V E N I N G   W I T H   A   R E B E L"
(Alternative Law Forum Office, Bangalore | October 05, 2008)

An Evening With A Rebel: Tenzin Tsundue, Tibetan poet and General Secretary of Friends of Tibet presents the documentary film 'Angry Monk' by Luc Schaedler in Bangalore. The film which documents the life of one of the most controversial monks from Tibet - Gendun Choephel was screened at the Alternative Law Forum office in Bangalore on October 05, 2009.

About Angry Monk: Tibet - the mystical roof of the world, peopled with enlightened monks? Only one of them would not toe the line - Gendun Choephel, the errant monk who left the monastic life in 1934 in search of a new challenge. A free spirit and multifaceted individual, he was far ahead of his time and has since become a seminal figure, a symbol of hope for a free Tibet. A rebel and voluble critic of the establishment, Gendun Choephel kindled the anger of the Tibetan authorities. The cinematic journey through time portrays the life of this unorthodox monk, revealing a face of old Tibet that goes against popular clichés. The film offers a fascinating insight into a country whose eventful past is refracted in the multiplicity and contradictions of everyday life. An outsider who was always open to new things, he eventually became a stranger in his homeland and homeless in foreign lands - a wanderer between worlds.

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Tibetan In City for IISc Breach Trial
(Deccan Chronicle | October 6, 2009)

Bangalore: The trial into the controversial case of a Tibetan who sneaked into the IISc premises and raised a protest banner `Free Tibet' during Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao's visit in 2005, is picking up pace. On Monday, the youth Tenzin Tsundue, appeared before the ACMM court and the case was posted to December 8. On April 10, 2005, Tenzin Tsundue climbed the tower on the fourth floor of the faculty hall building at IISc and displayed the banner and threw some pamphlets when the Chinese PM's high security convoy was in the premises.

The Sadashivanagar police had arrested the youth and booked him under sections 426 (mischief), 448 (trespass), 506 (criminal intimidation), 290 (public nuisance) and 309 (attempt to commit suicide). "The Sadashivanagar police had filed the chargesheet before the 7th ACMM. There are 14 witnesses in the case and the it might be posted for evidence in the next hearing,'' B.N. Jagadish of Alternative Law Forum said.

The snap protest by Tenzin gained wide publicity and six months later, the IT city witnessed its first terror attack at the IISc campus. The police said that a reminder on its security lapse was sent to the IISc before the December 25 terror attack, which claimed the life of a Professor from Delhi. The police considered the single man protest as a major security breach at the campus just six months before the terror attack.

Speaking to Deccan Chronicle Tenzin, who is a Tibetan poet and activist, said he had been appearing before the court ever since the trial commenced. "I have been visiting the city during the trial as well as for Tibetan movement programmes. The trial is at a very initial stage," he said.