LEH, April 24 (1985): India-The malevolence of sectarian politics has finally caught up with Ladakh, the Shangri-La up in the Himalayan Mountains where time has stood still for centuries. Virtually inaccessible a decade ago, arctic-like Ladakh long had been a sequestered model of cultural and political tranquility, where Buddhists and Moslems lived together in rustic harmony and where sectarian and regional differences were as scarce as the vegetation that struggles for life at rarefied altitudes of 15,000 feet and...




