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  • Cranes, Ladakh, and Sálim Ali

    March 30, 2026

    At first glance, doesn’t it seem like a typical field image from the 1970s? Men with binoculars and cameras, an all-male group of researchers in the foreground of a barren landscape. Let’s zoom in now: there are soldiers in uniform, military jeeps, and also what appear to be barracks in the background. Now, for me,…

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