Gitanjali J Angmo
@GitanjaliAngmo
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Founder & CEO, HIAL, Founder Transform India, Chevening Fellow, University of Oxford
Leh, Ladakh
Joined December 2017
When I met @Wangchuk66 yesterday, he told me how he spends time with the kids of the jail staff who accompany their parents to work! To the jail staff who ask him about how to bring up children, he gives the simple advice of always celebrating the good the child does more than
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And about the nip in the air @Wangchuk66 said that he feels at home when the northerly winds blowing from the High Himalayas cast a cold spell all over north India including Jodhpur. But the industrial air that mixes with it and raises the AQI makes him sad and wonder at the
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Met @Wangchuk66 today. He was missing being 1700 kms away from #Ladakh. But he was happy that there was something common between the minus 30 cold desert of Ladakh and the plus 50 hot desert of Rajasthan - Life in both the deserts is directly connected to the #Himalayas everyday!
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Met @Wangchuk66 yesterday. He asked me to thank the #TimeMagazine for the surprise. The timing could not have been better, he chuckled!! Deeply thanking everyone who stands with him and Ladakh, he reiterated his faith in the judiciary, the constitution of India and his firm
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“Plurality” is the middle name of #SanatanaDharma. The only philosophical worldview that can accommodate opposites from Charvaka’s materialism to Advaita Vedanta’s pure consciousness as the essence of Reality. The followers of each of the 9 Darshanas which is 9 ways of
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Here’s my interview with The Telegraph on @Wangchuk66’s detention! Watch full video here:
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Ladakh movement will stay peaceful despite curbs, Gitanjali Angmo tells The Telegraph Online
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60 Illustrious Indians have won the prestigious #RamonMagsaysay: Vinoda Bhave, Verghese Kurien, M S Subbulakshmi among others. Of these, 20 have won #PadmaShriPadmaBhushan awards, Dr V Shanta being the latest, awarded in 2016. Surely Indian Government does not award
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A lot of people quote the #Bhagavadgita while endorsing violence or revenge. But the call to action of Sri Krishna was not to the ego-ridden revenge-seeking Arjuna but Arjuna, the soul, purified from ego, desire and attachment - thereby becoming an instrument of the Divine! This
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