The Inexperienced Ambassador of the Union Territory of Ladakh has undertaken an initiative to advertise sustainable growth in home Yak preservation.
The concept is to purchase female and male hybrids, wild Yak (Bos mutus), and domesticated Yak (Bos grunniens) from the Pangong Valley and provides them away to the close by valleys of the Lalok area.
This apply will assist to multiply the stronger and more healthy genetic breed of the wild Yak within the Valley. Yak performs a key position within the lives of Ladakhis, one of many few communities on the earth recognized for his or her peace-loving lifestyle.
Ladakh is the land of excessive mountain passes and chilly deserts, amongst which dwell the maroon-robed Lamas studying the beads of their rosary or golden-brass prayer wheels of their fingers, fairly disconnected from the world however properly related with themselves.
In the present day, the Central authorities has set an underlying tone of welcome on this area by opening up the Nubra Valley and Siachen Glacier to the remainder of the nation.
Ladakh is bordered by the TAR (Tibetan Autonomous Area) and Aksai Chin within the East, J&Ok Union Territory and the Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan area to the West, Himachal Pradesh to the South, and Xinjiang (China) throughout the Karakorum cross to the North.
In a distant nook of Ladakh lives a tribe in seclusion – The Brokpas of Ladakh. Having extra Eurasian options like aquiline noses, increased cheekbones, honest complexion, greater eyes, and fuller lips – they’re straightforward to identify among the many extra ‘Mongoloid’ Ladakhi communities and tribes.
A little bit farther than 180 km from Leh, on the banks of the Indus River, the Brokpas inhabit the villages of Dah, Garkan, Hanu, and Darchiks. They’re a surprise to the skin world. Lore has it that these individuals are the direct descendants of Alexander’s military who didn’t go away India or obtained misplaced; therefore they understand themselves as pure Aryans. Some elders of the tribe declare that they’re the Dards from Gilgit-Baltistan who made this chilly desert their house some 2000 years in the past. They’re fluent in Shina, a language spoken in Northern Pakistan. Based on eminent anthropologists, the Dards of Ladakh will be traced again to 5000 years, making them one of many oldest human beings on this a part of our sub-continent.
Gurez valley of Kashmir can also be house to a civilisation of Dards. The one distinction is that Gurez dwellers are primarily Shia Muslims and Ladakh Dards apply Buddhism.
Think about waking up in a stone home nestled within the cover of tall timber carpeted in heavy inexperienced, the sound of bleating goats, a stream flowing within the yard, a fertile discipline at your arm’s size, and the mighty Himalayas contrasting in opposition to the blue skies. That is the idyllic life of those hamlets the place the Brokpas dwell; stuffed with nature’s wonders and no cares for the skin world.
Till concerning the early Nineties Brokpas in all probability by no means stepped out of their villages! Nowadays some members of the tribe are shifting to close by cities for formal training and steady jobs.
Brokpa girls put on their hair lengthy and braided, with elaborate floral headdresses generally known as Tepi. The flowers include medicinal properties and turn out to be useful for day by day use. One such ingredient of the headgear is months tho (an unique flower), a brilliant orange flower {that a} girl is incomplete with out. Heavy silver jewellery (to beat back evil spirits), sheep pores and skin capes and pherans, and cash adorn their costume. Males principally put on maroon robes and waistbands.
The villages have inexperienced pastures, and Barley, Buckwheat, Tomatoes, and Apricots develop wildly. The tribe makes scrumptious apricot wine.
The Brokpa Dards worship the mountains, rivers, and the land that provides them life. Although they’re Buddhists, they comply with an animist faith – Bon. Just like the Hindus, Bon followers additionally go to Mount Kailash as they maintain Lord Shiva in nice reverence.
Brokpas marry inside their group as a result of they’re obsessive about purity and the preservation of their genetics. As of at the moment, they’re about 2000 in quantity. Polygamy and Polyandry are frequent practices, however they marry after three generations of relation. Those that marry exterior the tribe are shunned. Europeans take a eager curiosity in Brokpas. Some German girls singularly go to Ladakh within the hope to procreate with a Brokpa man for a pure-bred Aryan baby.
Although they dwell and thrive in isolation from mainland India, they’re proud Indians. Within the 1999 Kargil Struggle, Brokpas helped the Indian military navigate by means of the punishing mountains of the area, helped them carry items, and provided them their properties and sources.
Remembering the warfare, an elder Brokpa, Konchuk, mentions, “No man within the tribe returned house throughout the six months that the warfare occurred.” They’re a proud race. Centuries earlier when Tibet attacked the area, the Brokpa chieftain Shali selected to die than undergo the Tibetan King’s demand for the tribe to do free labour.
After Ladakh was remodeled right into a UT, lodges, eating places, bike retailers, and new tenting grounds open daily ready for households and teams of associates that need an offbeat journey. Growth is going down at a lightning velocity, with effectivity and trendy options.
To sort out the issue of accelerating plastic waste and protect ecology within the Himalayas about 10 per cent of the bituminous roads within the area can be constructed utilizing plastic. On July 11, the Rural Growth Division of Ladakh in collaboration with the Central Street Analysis Institute (CRRI) organized a planning and coaching session for engineers for this function.
Apart from its diverse topography, Ladakh is a wonderland of festivals. The sights, colours, and sounds are distinctive to this land. They’re an amalgamation of the cultural richness of various communities and tribes of the realm. Conventional people dances, storytelling, native sports activities like polo and archery, exhibitions of Thangka, handicrafts, monastic dances, gastronomic experiences, and native Chang (liquor) testing classes are the points of interest of the honest.
Those that have tasted Ladakh at its most interesting swear by the Ladakh Competition which takes place yearly in September. In Might, Ladakh additionally witnessed its first-ever three-day Worldwide Music Competition in Leh.
Native bands and troupes from throughout the nation and worldwide DJs carried out at this occasion. The occasion was in remembrance of troopers who sacrificed their lives for the nation. The UT standing of Ladakh has granted it the respiratory area to develop and discover its personal distinctive identification for the world to see.
