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Museum in Ladakh near LoC preserves knucklebones game traditions
The New Indian Express reports on a community-led heritage project in Ladakh. The Unlock Hundarman, Museum of Memories in Hundarman village, near Kargil and close to the Line of Control, preserves everyday…
The Story in Brief
The New Indian Express reports on a community-led heritage project in Ladakh. The Unlock Hundarman, Museum of Memories in Hundarman village, near Kargil and close to the Line of Control, preserves everyday objects from the abandoned part of the settlement. Among the exhibits are goat knucklebones used in traditional Balti/Ladakhi games. The knucklebone, or astragalus, is an ankle bone that naturally lands on one of four sides, acting like a die. Panels describe a game combining dice and striking. The museum, housed in an old ancestral home, tells stories of families disrupted by the Indo-Pak conflicts.
The Indian Opinion
The Unlock Hundarman museum is a poignant reminder that borders fracture ordinary lives, not just armies. It is easy to romanticise knucklebones as quaint tradition, but the objects are artefacts of displacement. The real test is whether such community-led heritage can survive without being sanitised for tourism, or whether it will be forgotten as the next generation moves away. How many more such time capsules exist along the Line of Control?
Source: newindianexpress.com
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