In the Himalayas of northern India, Ladakh is a land of jagged peaks and sprawling desert, where ancient monasteries are ...

She is the author of the highly acclaimed Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1991). She first went to Ladakh in 1975 and shortly thereafter founded the Ladakh ...

Wangchuk has been involved with various NGOs and worked as an editor of Ladags Melong, the only print magazine in Ladakh. He ...

The activist Sonam Wangchuk is leading protests to demand more autonomy for India’s remote Ladakh region, which shares borders with China and Pakistan. By Anupreeta Das and Hari Kumar Reporting ...

Despite the resumption of patrolling, the underlying issue of disengagement remains unresolved. Patrolling is inherently an aggressive act aimed at asserting control over territory, and without ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. High in the Himalaya, a desert is turning green. Climate change in the Indian region of Ladakh has shrunk glaciers and ...

I kneel at his feet for a lesson in Buddhist philosophy, but he seems keener to learn what has brought me to this far-flung corner of Ladakh. The Nubra Valley lies in the far north of the region and, ...

India’s recent announcement—that the Indo-China border crisis had been resolved—was a vague, amorphous, unilateral ...

Explore the diverse locations in Kartik Aryan’s 'Bhool Bhulaiya 3'—from Kolkata's historic sites to Ujjain’s mystical charm ...

Photographer Ahtushi Deshpande’s passion project, Speaking Stones documents the threatened rock art of Ladakh ...

The patrolling agreement is a minor breakthrough considering Depsang plains and Demchok held out tenaciously against any ...

As reported by Indian current affairs magazine India Today ... Indian sides are immediately facing each other in the Eastern ...