Immediately after my Masters, I went to India. I spent three weeks of my stay working for the Leh Old Town Initiative (LOTI), an offshoot of the Tibet Heritage Fund. The old town, nestled at the heart of the Himalayas, was once the site of an important crossroads for the Central Asian caravan trade. Ladakh’s culture has been shaped more than most by the transmission of goods and ideas from such disparate regions as Tibet, Yarkand, Kashmir, Afghanistan. The town …