Tso and La: A Journey in Ladakh
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Vikramajit Ram
HarperCollins India
240 pages, R325
At the start of the Himalayan summer of 2009, writer Vikramajit Ram, seeking respite from a novel that had hit an impasse, travelled the high mountain passes of Ladakh. As the journey progressed, Ram abandoned his doomed work of fiction to write, instead, of his journey. The outcome derives its title from the Ladakhi words for ‘lake’ and ‘pass’. Weaving together elements of art and architecture, natural history and biography, this book is a tribute to an enigmatic corner of India.
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