Our young ones have always been shoulder to shoulder with grown-ups, learning on the job in the field, facing challenges. They were never designed to sit and listen or scribble.
Not that I did not have any other skills, but I loved teaching students, sharing with them my knowledge in sciences, maths or languages.
A lot of times we hear that nothing good can happen in government schools. The reason nothing can happen is that the children of those who have a voice do not study in them.
I expect nothing from the government but I expect everything from people. There is a need to update ourselves, our values and lifestyle.
People know crowdfunding, but they know it as something where one pays money for a cause or for products and so on. This is something where you contribute, but not money.
Ladakhi life is very fine-tuned with nature. We don't want it to become like cities.
Let Ladakh change the world rather than the world change Ladakh.
We try to make children problem-solvers. That gave birth to solar-heated mud buildings, using greenhouses to grow things and ice stupas - artificial baby glaciers.
Ladakh has changed a lot. Flash floods are common, followed by drought.
Sports stars connect with youth. So, Viacheslav 'Slava' Fetisov's coming to Ladakh was a natural thing.
In the past 30 years, I have been trying to make education more relevant as our old education system valorises production and consumption.
Things that work in New York or New Delhi do not work in the mountains. We have to find our own solutions for our problems.
There weren't any schools in my village, so I learnt to read and write from my mother. I played in the fields, sowing seeds, working with animals, jumping in the river, climbing trees.
The idea is to freeze the water in the winter and use it in late spring. The conical tower shape ensures that the surface exposed to the sun is minimal, so premature melting is avoided.
Many people have uninstalled Chinese apps. So when crores uninstall apps. It will be a message for the Chinese government when they are intruding into India.
When traders will start cancelling orders from China it will send a powerful message to Chinese government that antagonising India will extract a huge price.
