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Anguished voices: Exiled Tibetans express pain through poems
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"Away from home... I live in my thirty-sixth rented room... with a trapped bee and a three-legged spider..."
McLEODGANJ: Dozens of similar lyrical thoughts, speaking volumes about the pain of exiled Tibetans of leaving behind their homes, relatives and friends and their decades-old yearning for freedom, resonated the deodar-covered hills of the picturesque town of McLeodganj on Saturday evening.
Amid scores of people, including Tibetans and foreigners, five Tibetan poets read their own writings and works of famous poets to raise their voice against the Chinese government. The compositions were read out in Tibetan and Chinese language.
The poetry session was quite interactive as participants also spoke with the audience and there was a discussion on varied subjects, including the Tibet cause, importance of free thoughts, youth power and democracy.
"We are forced to live in exile and not allowed to go to our home country. The idea behind this symposium was to express our sentiments and deep thoughts through the medium of poetry and writing. My writings have depicted the anguish emerging because of living away from our own brothers and sisters. Besides, I also recited couplets highlighting the urgency of free expression of thoughts," Bhuchung D Sonam (39), a Dharamshala-based poet and writer, told TOI.
This event, which was part of the global initiative of a movement '100 Thousand Poets For Change' that has emerged from the US, was held at a quiet cafe in the solitary lanes on Dharamkot road.
Works of participating poets expressed the deep desire of tens of hundreds of Tibetans to attain freedom and to live in a free Tibet.
McLeodganj-based 'Tibet Writes', a congregation of young writers, organized the event to ensure that this sleepy town, situated in the foothills of Dhauladhar hills, became a part of the global movement.
Twenty-nine-year-old Tenzin Tsundue, another Dharamshala-based writer and Tibetan activist, told TOI, "I read three poems of Chinese peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, who is in a China jail right now. He has written these while sitting in the jail and they are based on optimism and positive thoughts. Besides, I also read one of my own poems."
Also, the poetic writings of Tibetans, who are currently lodged in Chinese jails, were also read by the participants.
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