Adieu Tashi! Hi, there! I was missing you guys also my write-up – – – it has been about two months or more the reason being the demise of our loving father Tashi Rabgias peacefully at Sankar in Leh on October 28 2020 at 3.30 p.m after attaining the age of 94 years and followed […]

Ladakh is now in the midst of its 6th L.A.H.D.C election campaign. One wonders how time passes by so quickly and we have completed two and half decade of running a local Government at the level of a District. Scores of local and regional leaders have come and gone by in the dust of history […]

It is September past the autumn equinox and slowly we are entering the receding phase of our working season in Ladakh and the temperature is beginning to slide down especially in the morning and evening getting chillier by the passing day and this would race up fast if we get a rain or weather turns […]

Never in the faintest probability did we ever envisage that a day will come when our daily lives would be put under so much scrutiny and pressure of following so many rules in a day. You need to put on a mask, follow social distancing norms both at home and work place. Sanitized your hand, […]

A jewel in the crown of trade and commerce and Geo- politics undercurrent.   Of late Changthang has been on the radar lenses due to border tension between the arm forces of India and China. Until the year 1960 everything seem to be alright here. The ancient border trade was going on and people were […]

It is said that 70 years is a very small period in the history of a Nation. Hence, we are an infant Nation with immense legacy in terms of culture and heritage. The term India has been derived from the term Indus which originated from the term ‘Sindhu’ which incidentally is the famous historic river […]

During last few years say year 2015 the number of domestic arrivals in Leh was much more the foreign. The tourist arrival for the year 2019 was 3. 2 lacs out of which there were about 60 thousands (approximately) foreign arrivals. Mostly European, also from Thailand in the initial stages. That is, now the season […]

Just as everywhere in India the English, German and other Europeans arrived in Ladakh too during the 19th century. Sir Alexander Cunningham complied the chronicles of ancient Ladakh in his magnum opus ‘Ladakhs Gyalrabs’. He was followed by A.H Francke a German Moravian missionary who wrote several books on Ladakh but the most popular being […]

Hello Friends, Now that we have all managed to confront this world wide Corona Virus pandemic ? It is to the credit of each of the National Governments tackling this hidden unknown flu with sufficient measures and skills. In India the early lockdown has helped to contain the rapid transmission of this virus at a […]

The phrase ‘Maryul Ladakh’ has been derived from the book on the history of Ladakh written by my father Mr. Tashi Rabgias in the year 1984 in Tibetan (Bhoti) language. It provides a glimpse into the ancient history of Ladakh with a passionate Buddhist perspective. The book was translated into English and launched during September […]