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The Kashmir Shawl

The Kashmir Shawl
  • Author(s): Rosie Thomas
  • Location(s): Ladakh, Srinagar
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s onwards

An epic story of wartime, family secrets and forbidden love, set against the stunning exotic backdrop of 1940s Kashmir. Within one exotic land lie the secrets of a lifetime… Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for the first time...

The Road Back

The Road Back
  • Author(s): Liz Harris
  • Location(s): Ladakh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

When Patricia accompanies her father, Major George Carstairs, on a trip to Ladakh, north of the Himalayas, in the early 1960s, she sees it as a chance to finally win his love. What she could never have foreseen is...

Postcards from Ladakh

Postcards from Ladakh
  • Author(s): Ajay Jain
  • Location(s): Ladakh
  • Genre(s): Humour, Travelogue
  • Era(s): c. 2009

Ladakh, circa 2009 You never have a sense of déjà vu in Ladakh. No place looks the same again. No moment repeats itself here. There is always something new to discover about the land and its people. Birds and...

Three men on motorcycles

Three men on motorcycles
  • Author(s): Ketan Joshi
  • Location(s): Ladakh
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modernn

‘Let’s go for a ride!’ This was the clarion call for Royal Enfield riders, but where should we go? Bharathi (the wife) – She Who Must Be Obeyed – sneers at our puny destination plans and orders us to...

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