26/07/2018
Proud moment for us. He is our alumni, the great Rancho from 3 idiots movie.🙏
Few days ago I received an unknown call from the Philipines to tell me that they were going to confer on me the Ramon Magsaysay Award, for working to improve lives of minorities in the mountains. Apparently they had done a year-long research work on me already, including visits to Ladakh. And this morning they formally announced it in Manilla!.
I honestly don't feel I deserve it alone as an individual! It belongs to every student, every teacher, every leader and every dreamer in Ladakh.
So I congratulate and thank each and every Ladakhi alive ... and even our ancestors who taught us... to care for nature and care for others before self. I was only humbly trying to apply these learnings in life.
In fact it is an occasion to express gratitude to the whole nation and the world for understanding that minorities in the mountains face special challenges, they are not only ethnic and linguistic minorities but also environmental, educational and technological minorities, where normal readymade solutions and policies from the plains don't even work.
Therefore I hope this award will give a boost to our work of engaging mountain youth in finding indigenous solutions to mountain peoples' problems. I hope it will also help our efforts to set up the Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh.... ( HIAL) an alternative university for the mountain development.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8lBXYbe7j8&t=277s
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