Wilting Flowers, Fading Songs: an endangered community in the Western Himalayas from mere songs Watch Video
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Description: Every single day a tradition, a song, a tale disappears from the cultural memory of the world. The Indo-Aryan tribe Brokpa is no exception to this inevitable process. Comprising today fewer than 2,000 people, they inhabit three secluded lush villages nestled along the Indus river 3,000 m high in the mountain desert of Ladakh – right on the edge of the disputed border of India with Pakistan.nnNowadays under the impact of modernization, tourism and the sensitive political climate in the region t
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