آج سے تقریباً چودہ سو برس قبل عراق میں کربلاکے مقام پر پیغمبر رحمت کے نواسہ اصغر حضرت امام حسین ؑ نے لامثال اور عظیم الشان قربانیاں پیش کرکے اسلام اور انسانیت کی ڈوبتی ہوئی کشتی کو کنارے لگادیا۔سنہ61ھجری میں بشریت کی بقا خون کی آبیاری کا تقاضا کررہا تھا۔کیونکہ بشریت کا خون ایک ظالم وجابر ،سفاک و بدمعاش حکمران چوس رہا تھا۔اس بدمعاش نے دین نبوی میں حلال و حرام کے مابین آمیزش کی تھی بدعات وخرافات کو جنم دے کر دین ناب محمدی کی اصل ہیت کو تبدیل کردیا تھا۔اس طاغوتی نظام کو للکارنے کے لئےزمانہ کو ا...
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Tambis waterfall may deplete soon! Voicing for protection
Nature has carved different creatures in the universe in a very different way to make it beautiful for the sake of living things and to enhance the beauty of the environment. A natural spot that has recently become popular among tourists and picnickers is the eye-catching waterfall at Tambis. To date, it remained hidden from the general public. Only locals and few people were aware of the hotspot and it became popular among outsiders recently.
The waterfall is around 10-15 meters in heigh...
Building Ladakh Disaster Resilience with Education
Disasters are a world problem. They don’t discriminate and nobody is untouched by it. However, early warning and early response for prevention at peacetime make a difference. We cannot stop disasters from taking place. What humans can do is, manage the risk. We can prepare for disasters, mitigate the risk and respond wisely to reduce tangible and intangible losses. Covid19 is an eye-opener for us. An overwhelming biological disaster that has paralyzed life throughout the world.
The Union ...
Online Learning and Corona in Ladakh
COVID-19 virus was fatal to humans, receding to businesses, antagonism to social life, and ruinous to school education among other sectors. The education sector is the most affected among all. The local administration in Ladakh believed that daily children assembly in schools can be a potential carrier for the virus to households all over the district besides being the most vulnerable age group to Covid 19 virus. Before all other sectors, schools were closed first. When, as per past routine,...
The Dark Side of Covid Lockdown
The Covid-19 emergency situation is becoming alarming day by day despite preventive measures taken by government/ local administration. Being a highly populated country after China, India is witnessing a drastic death rate since outbreak of Covid second wave. After all, Almighty Allah has power over the creatures in the universe. God willing may the pandemic end soon.
This piece is aimed to redirect the readers to the drawbacks of the lockdown in Union Territory of Ladakh. I have penned d...
Practicing Religion and Covid-19 Pandemic
Throughout history, the world has witnessed the worst plagues and epidemics that have devastated mankind. The Prehistoric Epidemic: Circa (3000 B.C.) in China and the Zika Virus Epidemic (2015) in South America and Central America are two of the worst epidemics and pandemics in history, spanning prehistoric to modern times. Another threat to humanity has been first observed in the form of Coronavirus also known as COVID-19. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a n...
Lessons from Zojila Closure and Shortage of Commodities
The entire region of Ladakh remains mostly dependent on Zojila Pass to inflow human needs whether it is basic need of daily use or secondary needs. For the whole summer season, all goods pass through the Zojila which is the only sustainable and comparatively easy lifeline for Ladakh in summer. Its blockade due to snow in winters results in lot of sufferings and shortage of essential goods for Ladakh.
The Zojila pass which is at an altitude of 11516 feet above the sea level, serves as a si...
Public Reactions: Ladakh after Becoming a Union Territory
Mutasif Hussain (Leh)
Asst. Prof. (History), Indraprastha College for Women, DU
I can understand, Covid has distracted Ladakh from a wide-ranging experience of a Union Territory. At a glance, Ladakh appears more of a bureaucratic state than a modern democracy. Constitutionalism abhors the creation of Power Corridors, one must be reminded. A single MP at the helm, however efficient is not an adequate political office for the entire UT, the lockdown evacuations, the deadlock over unemplo...
In Ladakh: Beyond the School Van
Many elders who keep deep observation on the ebbs and flows of society tell that the households residing near the general pedestrians’ way are smart in intellect, and get more exposure. As an instance, earlier the people walked on foot on the way from Kargil to Suru valley. The household on the bank of their way would frequently get more pedestrians as guests. The children in the house get more exposure, knowledge about various other villages, their social norms, and traditions in them.
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What do Experts tell About Purigi Language?
Do you exactly remember, when Mohammad Hussain became Maa’sain, Mohammad Shah became Masha, Fatima became Fati, Sonam Dolma became Sontoma, Tsering Dorjay became Tsengdor and Mussa Ali became Musali? With the passage of time, the accent and pronunciation of many names were modified without any deliberate emphasis to change. A similar change that we see but did not remember its exact period of change is the word “Bhoti” to the Ladakhi language. Obviously, this change is not a slip in accent d...