Ahtushi deshpande biography for kids
Biography for 2nd graders...
A photographer’s quest to document Ladakh’s petroglyphs
The two passions led the writer and self-taught photographer to her first petroglyph site in Ladakh in 2011.
Ahtushi deshpande biography for kids
Amid a boulder field by the Indus River, she found a rock with intricate hand impressions engraved on it. The sight left her in awe of the unknown artist and their creation that lay in the midst of nowhere. Over the next eight years, she documented more such rock art that culminated in her first book and an accompanying exhibition in Mumbai, Speaking Stones: Rock Art of Ladakh, which will travel to Paris in November.
The book also a finalist for the Banff Mountain Book Competition this year.
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“Petroglyphs give you a glimpse of what existed prior to historical records, and the kind of people who roamed these landlocked, inhospitable regions, crossing high passes at a time when there were no roads.
These were hunter-gatherers yet they had this instinct and ability to create such wonderf