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By: Sujoy Das

Sujoy Das — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:53:23 +0000

Sankar,

just brilliant! the photography, the writing and the land of the Changpas! Extremely moving acccount.
Sujoy Das

By: Santhanam & Kanchana

Santhanam & Kanchana — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:18:53 +0000

Truly moving. It is wonderful how you are able to convey in one go many things – a sense of adventure, compassion for a deserving land and its people, and a deep sense of envrionmental activism. Of course your simple yet elegant language (which is fast disappearing from the english journalism in India) is extremely captivating. In today’s english papers I am delighted if the journalist is able to write grammatical english. You can imagine my joy when I see your flowing brook like language which is able to reflect your personal humility without any pretense whatsover. Love Santhanam Chittappa and Kanchi Chitti

By: marisa

marisa — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:03:54 +0000

Dear Shankers , Thanks for the pics . To see these pics is a sacred moment !
Marisa

By: Vinay Goyal

Vinay Goyal — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 07:24:54 +0000

Read Shanker’s book as well. Loved the book. His passionate love for the exotic land is fully justified in his work. Perhaps he is one of the rarest few wholoved the region so much and his work makes any reader love changthang many times more. I have been there, loved the place a lot, but got the book from Leh, seeing the region from his eyes changed the entire perspective, I felt I have seen nothing. May be to see the region from his eyes I will spend at least a week there with his book. I m posting a picture of Changpa family at Flickr.

By: Syeda Shaguftanur Ali

Syeda Shaguftanur Ali — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:29:11 +0000

Breathtaking beauty… beautifully captured…cool man.

By: Rony

Rony — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:17:07 +0000

If I am not mistaken, Urghyen was also the man featured in the documentary ‘Riding solo to the top of the world’. His face came floating back as soon as I started reading this piece. Sridhar, I wish some of us could have half the courage he instilled in you. I have never been to Ladakh, but Urghyen is the first Changpa I had known of. And the regret of not meeting him will stay with me forever.

By: Abhi

Abhi — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:44:24 +0000

I have only heard about Urghyen and Nyima from Sridhar but I feel as if I know them. And when I read this Urghyen’s death and the fact that Nyima is married and probably Sridhar will not see her again felt like a personal loss to me! A moving piece one that needs to be read by as many people as possible if Urgyen’s land is to be saved from becoming yet another “tourism paradise”.