At that time, he criticized Modi’s Ladakh policy; he claimed that the current policy exposed the Ladakh’s Indigenous people in danger of losing their cultural identity, ecology, and ancestral lands.He writes that the Himalaya acts as the region’s water tower and that we need to protect it; otherwise, the next Mahakumbh will be celebrated on the dry sands of Ganga and Yamuna. “As we all know, the glaciers of the Himalayas are melting very fast, and if this and the accompanying deforestation continue at current rates, then in a few decades, our sacred rivers like Ganga, Brahmaputra, and Indus might become seasonal rivers. This may also mean that the next Mahakumbh might only happen on the sandy remains of the sacred river.”He demands a time from the PM when the people of Ladakh can present a piece of ice from fast-melting glaciers. “In this Year of Glaciers, I plan to present a symbolic piece of glacier to all the world leaders. In fact I have been just back from presenting a similar glacier block at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to thank them for declaring 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation,” he writes.
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