I was away visiting my husband Puneet in Leh. I had a wonderful time. One outing stands out - a visit to Darchiks, an Aryan village high up in the mountains. I tried looking up Darchiks on the internet, not much information available.

The Indian army, has a unit here, the place is legendry, because it appers it is a village of full-blooded Aryans. Goes back in time when Alexander and his army were crossing the Indus, a few men couldn't cross the Indus and therfore stayed back and went up North the Indus, losing track of the army that went down South. Too tired and wanting to just stay alive, they created a community up there and for 1000 of years stayed there, until the army went up there in the late 70's. So a little diaspora of Aryans sits here.

However, during my visit, I didn't see the blue eyed and blonde Aryan, I saw mostly mongoloid features and lot of the kids looked genetically deformed, probably from the inter-marrying within the same families. Ofcourse some stand out with sharp features. The village was rather quiet when I visited, it was work time. Work is mostly growing apricot and barley.It appears the locals are used to tourists and the army.The Indian army runs a women empowerment centre there. In fact the army does a lot of service for the civilians in Ladakh, under the Op Sadbhavana scheme.

The movement of operation Sadbhavana is based on idealism. The theme of the operation is achieving the progress of the nation through building up confidence amongst each other.Operation Sadbhavana, the local masses decide their requirements and place their demands to the Govt accordingly. The human being is the central point of focus in Sadbhavana. The protection of the locals residing in the border villages is the duty of the Armed forces. The biggest challenge faced by the Armed forces is to stop the border infiltration. The peacekeeping Operation Sadbhavana is a new model of the human defense.

A rumour has it that a while ago many German women came to Darchiks to impregnate thmselves with a full-blooded Aryan man. Now that is some story.

Here comes my interest, the movement of people began even before we knew. War and ambition has take people away from home in ancient times. Intresting how world populations have been travelling since.