Kelsang metok - Skal bzang me tog ‘dab brgyad ma (Ch.: Ch. Geisang meiduo) - was a 6-part TV drama series produced in Tibet by Xizang TV, one of the first to be set in contemporary Tibet. It is a melodrama about a wealthy Tibetan exile in Kathmandu who fled Tibet in the 1950s and has long yearned to return, yet has never quite dared to, misled as he is by false stories and exile plots. In this extract, he sends his family's former servant Pasang, who fled into exile with the family, to Lhasa to look for his mother.... (RB)
