Heaven's Gate - Pico Iyer on Ladakh - NYT
As the great centers of Himalayan Buddhism — Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan — are swept by the winds of change, in the Indian region of Ladakh, ancient temples stand solitary on mountaintops and the traditional ways still thrive.
In the Holy Caves of India - Simon Winchester on Ajanta - NYT
He must have been amazed.
He was named John Smith, he was a captain in the Madras Army, and he would have remained an almost forgotten British imperial figure but for a single scratched graffito that he left high on a basalt pillar in one of these caves, with, in perfectly legibly incised copperplate, his name and the date, April 1819.
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