Dawa Tsering Lepcha was born in 1974. He did his schooling in Tashi Namgyal Academy in Gangtok and graduated (BA) from Sikkim Government College. He then studied film making at the National Institute of Film and Fine Arts, Kolkota.

He has made several films about the traditions and customs of the Lepcha including; The Lepcha and their Soamm, Tingvong – A Lepcha Village in Sikkim and Chaam in the Lepcha Village of Lingthem. These films have been shown at film festivals around the world.

Till the beginning of the indefinite hunger strike, he was working with the Namgyal Institute of ‘Tibetology of Sikkim at chorten, Deorali, Gangtok as the Sikkim Ritual Video Project Cinematographer for the Institute’s visual anthropology project.

His visual story-telling about tribal life in Sikkim will ensure that that the traditions of Sikkimese people – gradually disappearing with modernity - are forever captured on film.

His home is in Lingdong Village, in the Dzongu Lepcha Reserve in North Sikkim.

DAy 62

Today is the 62^nd day of the indefinite hunger strike by Satyagrahis and Members of ACT led by Dawa Lepcha and 20 year old Tenzing Gyatso Lepcha. While the duo leading the hunger indefinite strike are at STNM hospital being fed through their noses by Ryle’s Tube, the rest continue their indefinite relay hunger strike at BL House