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

The Indian government is working towards making the union territory of Ladakh carbon-neutral, just as the nation’s Sikkim has made its mark as a fully organic state in the northeast.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

November 13 marks the birth anniversary of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Gain insights into his life in today’s knowledge nugget.

Ankit Panda, a senior editor at The Diplomat magazine, says the ongoing crisis ... Getty Images An Indian soldier at the border in Ladakh But Chinese behaviour this time has "been very different ...