Wednesday, July 30, 2008

nye ladakh(my ladakh)

this is my first post on my blog ,so this post certainly is decisive for me as i will write more if am finished with this and if i find it worth writing.my english s**ks so if am grammatically wrong at many places don't mind . please overlook them.as far as facts are concerned i think they are good,the contents.


i think being a ladakhi is a good thing that has happened to me.i see people from all the other communities and i really feel how blessed i am.i am really not being ethnoclastic here.its just that how naive,how pristine ,how simple my people are. that's what ,is the most, i love about them.


to be frank leh is not a city though we call it one.maybe we call it relative to the villages surrounding it.not even leh has its own natural resources.the populace is dependent on the foreign tourists for its livelihood and the handful of government jobs.earning a livelihood in leh is not very hard . just take a loan,get a taxi,and you can have two luncheon a day.what i mean is that the foreigners are a good source of income .i feel maybe its because of the easy livelihood, that the ladakhis are too good and simple.had it been harsh to earn a livelihood,i do not know how would my people have been .and i must add ,there are no ladakhi beggars in leh. its just that mendicants,most of them handicapped ,come to leh during summers from many other parts of india and the magnanimous memes(grand fathers) and abilays (grand moms) don't mind giving them money only in multiples of five.they don't think less than five rupees will do any good to them.one thing for sure is that ladakhis are very religious people.they are not god fearing, but endearing.one time when i was a kid, hh(read "his holiness") the dalai lama was supposed to visit leh and to my amazement almost every ladakhi was present for him to arrive near the metallic road. people with khataks(a piece of silk cloth to show veneration towards someone) were eagerly awaiting for him to pass from their part of road, on both sides of the road and when he arrived some of them started crying considering them self very Lucky to have been able to see him in their life time.so,the are really very religious.


the super awesome landscapes that we have , i just feel like telling it to the world.any view ,any shot taken is a perfect shot(even without canon).you don't have to worry about the land to sky ratio and others.
now if you are a young person i say get a bike and get down on the roads of ladakh varying from" metallic" to "venturing your own path".so its really awesome if you visit leh.i am really not advertising here .we get so many foreign tourists during summers that i don't have to advertise it here and i can very well prove that. when i (and you also) see advertisements saying incredible india,most of the time they show the splendid,mesmerising picturesque of gompas(buddhist monastries) and the statues of our gods and that implies they show "ladakh" to attract foreign tourists to india.there are lot more things like the natural geysers on the way towards changthang(i don't remember the exact name of the place.).well to just get a hint how beautiful leh is follow my instruction(not instructions).
1.type pangong tso or tsomoriri on your Google toolbar and click image.haha dumbfounded???...now see how awesome it will be if you see it in real .just imagine!!


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