Leh Must Not Become Another Shimla

The people of the brand new Union Territory are happy. But they should be apprehensive too. The Indian tourist army may ravage the ecologically fragile region.

JT Namgyal, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) MP from the two-district Ladakh Union Territory (UT), must be a happy man. Soon after his forceful arguments in the recently concluded Parliament session that Ladakh’s political aspiration, development, language, and culture had been curtailed by Article 370