'People are forgetting Tibet, but the whole world can learn from Tibetans'

Pah Lak – a Tibetan play, with a Tibetan cast, that’s being staged across India and Europe – explores the Tibetan resistance, ‘that’s the only non-violent movement left today in the world,’ says playwright Abhishek Majumdar

- Niharika Lal

How can a person be non-violent in the face of extreme violence? The play Pah-Lak by playwright Abhishek Majumdar – that is the first major Tibetan production, with a Tibetan ensemble – is as much an inquiry into this paradox as it is a testament to the powerful resistance movement of the Tibetans, who have been in exile for 63 years. “India got its independence because of Gandhi’s nonviolence movement. Cut to present, there is no non-violent freedom revolution. The Tibetan resistance is the only non-violent movement and I wanted to tell this story,” says Abhishek.