This Indian Village Celebrates Darkness, Is Home To 'Dark Sky Reserve' | Read

At a remote village on the Indo-China border, here 'black is beautiful' and darkness is celebrated! Even as India celebrates the festival of lights Diwali with gusto, there is surprise-surprise a place high in the Himalayas where night lights are hated. NDTV's Science Editor Pallava Bagla had a rare visit to the country's only 'Dark Sky Reserve' tucked away in a remote part of Ladakh. Here the local villagers who also act as astro-ambassadors show the beauty of the stars to tourists using modern telescopes and hence abhor light pollution.