Not The Ladakh Post

Lage Raho Munnabhai totally rocks. Everyone in the movie rocks - Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Boman Irani, Vidya Balan, Dia Mirza and pretty much all other characters who make up this laugh riot. Just watched it and I wouldn't mind sitting through another 3 hours of the same right now.

Will be writing a separate post on Ladakh soon. Haven't been able to get the time to sit down and pen it down. Maybe the pics spoke half the story, but there are quite a few interesting incidents, facts et al that do need to be mentioned. Soon.

Speaking of Ladakh, there's this new Airtel ad on TV that shows a bunch of young women sitting in a tent in Ladakh and one of them manages to get a phone call. The ad supposedly touts the 'reception' and 'network' of Airtel in 'remote' places. To prove a point, they manage to show a milestone that says 'Leh - 124' km.

The village (yes, that green patch is a village) shown in the background suspiciously looks like Shakti, though I may be mistaken. Rightly, Airtel is the only network apart from BSNL that has any coverage in Ladakh. However, try as I might, I cannot recall getting the Airtel network on my cellphone (or Arya's for that matter) anywhere that was more than 10 km away from Leh. And certainly not in Shakti.

Second point - I am not sure there are many groups of 'Indian girls' touring Ladakh. I did see one group in Manali, but definitely not in Ladakh. And what the hell are they doing, pitching a tent at the edge of a cliff?

Incidentally, a friend of mine is trekking through HP & Ladakh with her sister. They are carrying a satellite phone with them, thanks to the lack of network in those areas.

Still, I hope Airtel is right. It can only be good news, eh?