At Thikse Monastery, in a shrine draped in colorful silks, morning prayers are starting to adopt the unruly atmosphere of a school assembly. After the elders have taken their seats to join the ...

At Thikse Monastery, in a shrine draped in colorful silks, the air thick with juniper smoke, morning prayers are starting to adopt the unruly atmosphere of a school assembly. After the elders have ...

Owing to its geographic location near the longitudinal center of Asia, Ladakh, the land of high passes, has witnessed numerous demographic movements during the past millenniums of occupation. In an ...

The Shangri-la is losing its quiet. Geographically isolated, topographically harsh and culturally exotic; Ladakh, the land of monasteries and monks rarely grabs headlines due to several factors. The ...

Kyle J. Gardner, The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846-1962 (Cambridge University Press, 2021) When the first Englishman visited Leh, the capital of Ladakh ...

Hidden in the high valleys of India's Kashmir region, Ladakh is one of the most remote lands on Earth. Thanks to snows in the high elevations, this place, formerly an independent Buddhist kingdom, is ...

“But just because the topography of the Aksai Chin doesn’t afford a neat natural line to use as a border, it doesn’t mean that both sides can’t come up with a borderline that can be respected.” Amid a ...

2019 and since… With the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019, Ladakh was carved out as a Union Territory without a legislature, placing it under direct control of the Lieutenant Governor and the Centre.

Regionally, it can be reasonably argued—albeit with qualifications—that Islamabad has been alternately snubbed and ignored by New Delhi. In an almost symmetrical reaction, Beijing has done the same to ...

NEW DELHI: Ladakh witnessed its worst violence in decades on Wednesday as a protest over statehood and Sixth Schedule safeguards spiralled into clashes that left four people dead and more than 80 ...