The Chief Minister of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, traveled to Leh on Saturday to open the annual Sindhu Darshan festival, which celebrates the peaceful, multi-cultural identity of Ladakh and modern India. The three-day annual festival, held at the time of the full moon in June,… Continue reading…
In October 2006, the Indian army celebrated a long tradition of militarism in Ladakh by reopening the Zorawar Fort, near Leh, with a sight and sound show for tourists—and, presumably, Ladakhis proud of having been conquered in the 1830s. General Zorawar Singh led an army, called the Dogras, from the… Continue reading…
The Ladakhi film industry, which was described recently in a major newspaper article, has now been portrayed in an Indian documentary film called “Out of Thin Air.” According to a review in The Hindu last week, the new documentary shows how the Ladakhi films portray “the landscape and its people… Continue reading…
The Times of India carried a story on Saturday about a novel plan developed by a Ladakhi man to counteract the effects of global warming. The Copenhagen climate conference may have been a bust, and glaciers in the high mountain ranges of Asia are certainly still receding, but Chewang Norphel… Continue reading…
Ladakhis have gotten into making films, about their own society of course, and everyone seems to be getting into the act. Buddhist monks are writing screenplays, cops and taxi drivers are playing key roles, and crowds are pouring into opening night showings in Leh, the district capital. Bollywood is being… Continue reading…
Alex Gillespie analyzes the relationships between tourists in Ladakh and the Ladakhi people on the basis of trust. Tourists visit Ladakh to hike in the mountains, visit remote villages, see Buddhist monasteries, and engage with what they hope will be traditional Ladakhi people. They often are more concerned with the… Continue reading…
IANS, a major South Asian news service, carried a story last week about the innovative features that have been built into the Druk White Lotus School in Ladakh. Located in the village of Shey, about 15 km southeast of Leh, Ladakh’s capital, the school building has been built using many… Continue reading…
IANS, a major South Asian news service, carried a story last week about the innovative features that have been built into the Druk White Lotus School in Ladakh. Located in the village of Shey, about 15 km southeast of Leh, Ladakh’s capital, the school building has been built using many… Continue reading…
Operation Sadbhavana has been a military strategy of the Indian Army to win the hearts and minds of the remote Ladakhi people on the militarized borders of northern India. A recent article in the journal Military Medicine explains, and carefully justifies, the outreach services, particularly the medical interventions, in the… Continue reading…
A prominent Ladakhi Buddhist scholar and spiritual leader will be giving a lecture at Colorado College in Colorado Springs on March 27th. The Buddhist monk Khen Rinpoche Lozang Tsetan will be speaking on the main floor of Gaylord Hall, at the Worner Campus Center, 902 Cascade Ave., at 7:00 PM…. Continue reading…
