Life is elsewhere

nyraghu

Continuing its Sunday preoccupation with Ladakh, the Lucknow edition of the Hindustan Times yesterday carried a feature on the Chang-pa nomadic people of Changthang, which, I thought, may interest others here. It mentions the work of a French couple who have been working with the Chang-pas. They say that every year five out of the 100 existing Chang-pa families move out of the tribe to a more mainstream way of life. The full article, titled "Life is elsewhere," is available at Yahoo India News, http://in.news.yahoo.com/070908/32/6ki59.html

There also seems to be an interesting documentary called `Riding Solo To The Top Of The World,' directed by Gaurav Jani, describing his solitary motorcycle journey to Changthang.

Raghu.

capt_mahajan

Very interesting. Had missed the earlier thread, too.

Thanks.

Sadanand Kamath

About a fortnight back, there was an article in MUMBAI MIRROR on the solo motorcycle journey by Gaurav Jani to Ladakh. I am not able to get a hand on it.

By the way, Gaurav Jani appears to me to be a IM member . Pl see the thread at http://www.indiamike.com/india/himac...dmandi-t43056/

Sadanand

__________________
Sirf ek kadam utha tha galat rahe shauk mein
Manzil tamam umr hame dhunti rahi.

[Just one wrong step on the way of the quest
My destination looked for me all life long]

nyraghu

It does seem to be a fascinating film, and its Web site says that it has won several awards. There is a review of the film, titled `Motorcycle Chang-pa', in the Sunday magazine of The Hindu, 19 February, 2006.

Thanks for that reference. I wonder if you mean Jaykumar Jadeja, who was one of the posters in that thread; he appears to have travelled to Changthang on a motorcycle, and has put up nice photographs of the trip on one of his Web sites. (Just in case someone wants to follow the link in your posting to that thread, I have taken the liberty of removing a typo in the URL --- the dot between f and 29; so the thread is actually Around Dharamsala, Hamirpur, Kangra and Mandi.)

Raghu.

Sadanand Kamath

Thanks for correction.

Yes. I seem to have got confused when I followed the link mentioned by jay_j http://www.60kph.com where Gaurav Jani's name has been mentioned as director of the documentary film.

Sadanand

Dilliwala

Here's the full link, for those who want to see a trailer:

Riding Solo to the Top of the World