No substitute to dialogue in Ladakh

So we have achieved what I, having served a lifetime in Jammu and Kashmir, including Ladakh, would have until only recently considered impossible. Ironically, dominated by a Shanti Stupa in the Union Territory of Ladakh, violence erupted in Leh city on September 24 during an ongoing protest seeking statehood and what Ladakhis consider the constitutional status of a Scheduled Area for its tribal population.