Sonam Wangchuk’s False Martyrdom: Why Ladakh Cannot Be Held Hostage to One Man’s Narrative - Daily Good Morning Kashmir

Sonam Wangchuk’s False Martyrdom: Why Ladakh Cannot Be Held Hostage to One Man’s Narrative - Daily Good Morning Kashmir

The drama surrounding the Ladakh administration’s cancellation of land allotted to the Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh (HIAL), tells us less about governance and more about the dangers of personality cults in fragile regions. Sonam Wangchuk, hailed globally as an innovator and reformer, has framed the decision as a political vendetta and an “attack on Ladakh.” The facts, however, tell a starkly different story: this was not persecuti…