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Driving across thefrozen Hanle river en route to Zarsar, which is about about 10 km from the International Border.-

Mesmerised in Ladakh

A 340-kilometre round trip from Leh presents awesome sights, among them the frozen Indus and the peaks with frozen waterfalls.
TEXT & PHOTOGRAPHS: ROMESH BHATTACHARJI

Cocaine valley

IN mid-March, before the snow begins to melt and when the rivers are still clear, many villagers in the Lohit Valley in Arunachal Pradesh get ready to
TEXT & PHOTOGRAPHS ROMESH BHATTACHARJI
THE POPPY FIELDS of Raliang village in Anjaw district.-

Opium valley

IN mid-March, before the snow begins to melt and when the rivers are still clear, many villagers in the Lohit Valley in Arunachal Pradesh get ready to
TEXT & PHOTOGRAPHS ROMESH BHATTACHARJI
THERE ARE FRESH flowers every day at Karl Marx's grave, the most perennially popular at Highgate Cemetery.-

A walk through Highgate Cemetery

ON one of the highest hills (131 metres) in north London, at the brim of a carefully cultivated leafy unruliness, stands a simple granite obelisk supp
TEXT & PHOTOGRAPHS ROMESH BHATTACHARJI
Tulips in bloom in Shiraz Bagh, at the foot of the Zabarwan hills in the Kashmir valley.-

Tulip extravaganza

Tulips on thirty hectares in Shiraz Bagh make Kashmirs spring more colourful this year than ever before.
TEXT & PHOTOGRAPHS: ROMESH BHATTACHARJI

Steeped in history

Punjab's border villages abound in historical monuments which cry out forconservation.
TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS ROMESH BHATTACHARJI
Decked in snow, Gund village in the Valley.-

The season of snow

As winter descends on the Kashmir Valley, the golden splendour of autumn disappears and the landscape transforms into a freezing expanse of white.
Text & Photographs: ROMESH BHATTACHARJI
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