A project by Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam, Shadow Circus, an exhibition at IIC New Delhi, is based on their personal archive of the Tibetan resistance to Chinese occupation between 1957 and 1974
A project by Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam, Shadow Circus, an exhibition at the India International Centre in New Delhi, is based on their personal archive of the Tibetan resistance to Chinese occupation between 1957 and 1974.
Sarin, a filmmaker, hopes that by them highlighting the “little-known and early phase of Tibet’s armed struggle against Chinese aggression”, discussions will begin about the current situation of Tibet and its geopolitical realities.
Sarin and Sonam started researching on the little-known about Tibetan armed resistance in the early 1990s while working on a documentary film for BBC. Over the years, they met many former resistance fighters who were living quiet lives in Nepal, and were surprised when the filmmaker duo reached out to them for interviews.
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