Power law formulae have routinely been used to describe the transverse momentum spectra of the hadrons at high energies. The Tsallis distribution is one among them which has been very successful in explaining the experimental transverse momentum distribution, longitudinal momentum fraction distribution as well as the rapidity distribution of the hadrons in electron-positron and proton-proton collisions. The Tsallis distribution is a two parameter power-law distribution, described by the Tsallis parameter q (which can be related to the relative variance in temperature) and the Tsallis temperature T, which reduces to the Boltzmann (exponential) distribution when q goes to 1. The Tsallis distribution has been used in many fields of the physical as well as the social sciences (like Statistical Mechanics, Geology, Anatomy, Economics, Finance and many more). In the realm of the physical sciences it arises when there are systems with non-ideal effects like long range correlation, memory effect etc. Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), the hot and dense medium created during the high energy collision phenomena, is one such example. This medium has been under intensive study for the past few decades and we will discuss how the Tsallis distribution can be used for characterization of QGP.