The table they wanted is the one next to the ground sitting. Click on image for a larger view.
Soon after I checked in to my camp at Sarchu (located at the border of Himachal Pradesh and Ladakh) a strange incident took place: a group of people came to the camp in a small truck and asked the manager for Rs. 2,500. He said he was not authorized to do so and they should contact the owner.
The owner does not stay at the camp. And there is no way of contacting him from Sarchu. There are absolute no telephone links of any sort in this desolate high altitude cold desert. And who were these people? They had come from the Gram Panchayat (the local village Government) to collect an arbitrary, unofficial tax from the camp. Seeing the manager adamant in not paying up, they then made a weird sounding request to take the table I was having coffee on. [continue reading…]
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