A high-altitude village in Arunachal Pradesh, known for a 1962 war memorial, has added a first-of-its-kind parlour for milk from a bovine animal that’s often called ‘the ship of the Himalayas’.
Travellers to and from Tawang invariably stop at the Nyukmadung War Memorial to pay homage to Indian soldiers who died fighting Chinese aggressors nearby on November 18, 1962. The main memorial is a 25-foot-high chorten — a Buddhist shrine — conforming to local ethos and traditions.
The village, at about 2,800 metres above sea level, now sports the Nyukmadung Dairy at the farm of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research-National Research Centre on Yak, or NRC-Y. The farm in the West Kameng district is about 25 km from Dirang, where the yak research centre is situated.
