The banner of "Free Tibet", branded with the "snow lion", floats in the crystalline blue sky, overhanging the crowd in camouflage uniform, standing at attention for a final tribute in front of the wooden coffin, covered with the Indian tricolor flag .
Beyond, the dusty valley, the brown and coarse ridges of the Himalayas rise majestically above Leh, the capital of Ladakh, a former Tibetan kingdom today in India, and cut from its roots since the annexation of the immense Tibetan plateau by Mao's Red China.
The stocky figure of Ram Madhav respectfully bowed down to the burial ground of mine-struck fighting hero Nyima Tenzin on August 30 during a high-altitude operation in the Pangong Tso Lake area along the disputed border line to the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA).
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