Nomad Tsering Angchuk promises to stay put in his remote village in India’s Ladakh region. “Most of it is due to heating shelters that can be easily replaced by non-carbon-based heating systems.” He said Ladakh today is “probably the densest militarised zone where the civilian-soldier ratio is 1:2”. “None of the other products gets as much revenue as what they …
Residents say military buildup at the disputed frontier snatches their sense of safety and rights over land they have owned for generations. “Since three generations, my family has been herding cattle in Demchok, but the conflict deprives us of our grazing rights,” Konchok Ishey, a 43-year-old nomad from the Chushul valley in eastern Ladakh, told Al Jazeera. But the Indian …
