Watch: Desmond Tutu, Dalai Lama joke, reflect on friendship in rare snippets

The world got a glimpse of the warm relationship between South African anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama in a video shared on social media of the two of them joking over a meal and speaking about their admiration for each other.

The video emerged after Tutu’s death on Sunday. World leaders and millions of people across the globe mourned the 90-year-old Nobel Prize-winning activist.

As the world looked back on Tutu’s life, many Twitter users shared snippets from a documentary titled Mission: Joy - Finding Happiness in Troubled Times, which explores his friendship with the Dalai Lama.
The video showed the two leaders exchanging laughs and at one point, Tutu teaching the Dalai Lama how to dance.

In another part of the video, an interviewer asks Tutu and the Dalai Lama: “What is it about your friendship that allows you to have this extraordinary joy?” Tutu jokingly says the Dalai Lama is “always troubling him”.

Tutu goes on to day that he admires the Dalai Lama enormously, while the Tibetan spiritual leader tells the interviewer that at the time of his death, he will remember his friend.

The friendship between the two leaders struck a chord with social media users. “This video of him [Tutu] and the Dalai Lama together is just so heartwarming!” said orator and writer Joy Bhattachariya.