Tsundue’s talk on "Writing and Resistance" at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst is hosted by UMass Students for a Free Tibet chapter and supported by the Resistance Studies Initiative, UMass Amherst. The event will take place in Room N151, Integrative Learning Centre, UMass, Amherst at 5:30 pm on Monday, April 17. Tsundue will discuss his experiences as a writer and activist and offer insights into the importance of literature and language in promoting social justice. Stellan Vinthagen, Endowed Chair in the Study of Nonviolent Direct Action and Civil Resistance, and Professor of Sociology at UMass, Amherst will deliver the opening remarks.

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About Tenzin Tsundue

In 2001, Tsundue won the first-ever Outlook-Picador Award for Non-Fiction for his work "My Kind of Exile". Till now, he has published four books, all translated into several languages. He published his first book of poems, Crossing the Border, when he was studying for a master’s degree at Mumbai University in 1999. His second book, Kora, came out in 2002 and has been translated into French and Malayalam. Later, it also became a play, So Many Socks, which was nominated for an award. Semshook, a compilation of essays on the Tibetan freedom movement, was published in March 2007. Tsundue's latest publication "ནང། Nowhere to Call Home" was launched in New York just this past month. His works have also been published in the Tibetan and Indian media and in international publications. That’s not all. He was also named among India’s 50 most stylish people, along with Tibetan spiritual leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the Indian edition of the international fashion magazine Elle in 2002.