Kora

Tenzin Tsundue had momentary global celebrity in Jan 2002 when he scaled 14 floors of mumbai hotel to greet Zhu Rongji then premier of the People's Republic Of China with a Free Tibet banner and a Tibetan national flag. In India, land of this exile brith, his poems and his activist patriotism had already won him a following amongst younger, more politically aware Tibetan refugees. This second volume of poems, stories and opinion takes its title from Kora, an allegory on Tibet's half-century-long struggle to break free from chinese control. Another story, My kind of exile, won a major Indian literary prize for expressing "The tragedy of being a Tibetan in this world".