The Tibetan Students’ Association, Madras will be organizing a three days photo exhibition “ FACES OF TIBET” of a hundred photographs by senior photojournalist and Tibet supporter Mr. Vijay Kranti for the first time in Chennai. It will be inaugurated on the 10th of March 2007, the 48th “National Uprising Day” by Mrs. Suhasini Mani Ratnam, a respected film actress and social activist in South India. This national award-winning actress has acted in 185 films. She co writes scripts with her husband Mr. Mani Ratnam, the much acclaimed director of films like ‘Bombay’, ‘Dil Se’, ‘ Yuva’ and more recently ‘Guru’. Other eminent guests will also be present.
The first section of the photo exhibition 1-73 is the photographer’s tribute to the Tibetan refugee community, its leader the Dalai Lama and its hosts: the people and the govt. of India. The second section 74-100 is based on two recent photo expeditions of Tibet undertaken by Mr. Vijay Kranti to document Tibetan life under Chinese occupation. Some of these pictures expose the environmental and religious destructions carried out by China in this last colony on our democratic earth.
The students will take part in a silent march in the morning from “Dignity of Labour ” statue to the “ Mahatma Gandhi” statue on the Marina beach. Two young Tibetans based in Chennai, Tenzin Kalden and Tenzin Samphel will be starting ‘Tibet Kitchen’ serving authentic Tibetan food for the first time in Chennai. They will serve free lunch to all the participants after the march.
