No Adjectives do Justice to Tawang!
Tawang Diary 5 No Adjectives can do Justice to Tawang! Tawang War Memorial I had shared with you (last week) about our visit to Bum La pass. During our descent to Tawang, we were mostly quiet. We did not stop at Joginder Singh gurudwara on the way back because of the high pile of snow covering its entrance, nor did the driver stop to have army chai ka langar (free tea). The driver, sensing the heavy mood inside the vehicle and in an effort to lighten it, insisted that we visit Sangetsar Tso on the way. Tso means lake in Tibetan. The lake was a grassland till 1971 when an earthquake changed it into a water body. Sadly though, people’s fascination for renaming has worked here too and some have started calling it ‘Madhuri’ lake after film star Madhuri Dixit shot a song here for her film ‘Koyla’. The tall trunks of trees stand in the water, giving it a unique character and birds flock here. You can have hot momo s, chhole-bhature, spicy maggi , tea and coffee in the army can...