Sonam Wangdus AKA ADU
A High Court judgment from a small Himalayan valley ripples across the world. Lawyers in Geneva. Judges in New Delhi. Environmental scholars in London. All citing a case about a Ladakhi watershed, about how development in fragile mountains must answer to both law and nature. That’s not fantasy. It could be our future. For years, this was unimaginable. A Ladakhi facing a legal wrong, an arbitrary government order, an illegal land grab, an environmental violation faced a b...