Cloudburst kills over a hundred people in India

Over a hundred people are feared dead following a cloudburst in Leh region of Ladakh along the Sindhu river in the north Indian state of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Jammu and Kashmir on Friday August 6, according to television and radio reports.  The cloudburst...

How Ladakh Will Be Without "Tung Tung"

There is an old African proverb about war that says, when two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers in the end. The proverb neglects to mention that, while the grass suffers a great deal, its destruction goes largely unnoticed. We see the trampled grass as being akin,...