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How Pure Was the Valley
In India’s Aryan Valley, ancient villages hold onto a history that crosses continents. But in the lands of the Brokpa, all is not what it seems.
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About the Journalist
Sugato Mukherjee is a photographer and writer based in Kolkata whose interests are multifold. He has worked on stories about the nomadic Changpa tribesmen in Eastern Ladakh; vibrant, syncretic cults in South India; and the lives of salt farmers in Gujarat and Vietnam. He also loves to write about unexpected travel destinations and food. His work has been published by BBC, Al Jazeera, Deutsche Welle, Fodor’s, American Sociological Journal, Atlas Obscura, National Geographic Traveller India, The Globe and Mail, and Discovery.
Sugato’s coffee table book on Ladakh was published in New Delhi in 2013, and his second book “The God in the Mirror” has just been published at the 2024 Kolkata International Book Fair. He is currently working on a long-term documentary project on Kashmir and hopes to make a book out of it someday.
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