Sosa: Circa 1936 and Now

I got this photo from the net. It was taken by some Englishman in 1936 who went to explore Tibet and border areas. The photo was titled "Women weavers from Sosa".The first thing that strike me when i saw the photo was it's background,it looked extremely familiar as if it has not changed for years.I felt that i've also taken some photos with the same background.


After seaching thru some albums i found one photo which i took during Somilda's marriage in 2003.And the similarity between two photos left me amazed, The backgrounds matched perfectly.
Lot of the things have been changed in the span of two photos. The women in first photo are shown in our traditional dress which these days women wear only during during some marriage or festival like Kangdali. During those times business flourished in the area, which abruptly stpped during 1962 war. I think Rung people suffered most after the war, as the business finished and agricluture was not a major occupation. I admire the people who suffered but paved the way for a healthy future for their generations to come. Today the results are everywhere to be seen. The community has been improved by leap and bounds. Today rungs are successful and now from past 8-10 years they are trying to make whole community succesful through laudable efforts.
Also the adaptability rung people showed in past 50-60 years is awesome. From a community which was out of mainstream, they have today mingled with the world.

Sosa. my village, also changed alot in these years. My mother was the first graduate woman of sosa when she came to sosa after marriage and incidently my FuFu was the second. Now, in every home there's atleast one engineer or doctor, and the future of new generation looks wonderful with the choices available to them.