Pune: Well at least the plan was to have a packed auditorium with people jeering China and applauding and giving us standing ovation but, it didn’t happen. There were quite a few empty seats and the screening went by rather quietly, and lesson learned that support comes seldom and in meager measures.
With a total of( 20 members), the film screening was held in Symbiosis college auditorium and three films, two documentary films and a feature film was shown. An introductory SFT footage was shown first and then another titled ‘leaving fear behind’, filmed by Dhondup Wangchen who has been arrested for filming the same. The last motion picture shown was ‘Kundun’ a biographical film on His Holiness The Fourteenth Dalai Lama , followed by a speaker who thanked the guests and let them know the vacancy for SFT’s membership if they were willing to join and concluded the evening saying ‘thank you’.
The evening had ended officially except for the guests that included students from different countries including Bhutan, Ethiopia, Belgium and even China who came to us and told us to continue the good work and put pen to paper joining the organization which is at the end of the day is fruit to our labor and aid to our cause. SFT Pune thus stepped its first step and we know there is a much longer walk to go.
Tenzin Dharpo
SFT Pune, reporter.
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