Monisha Ahmed

Monisha Ahmed is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Ladakh Arts and Media Organisation, Leh. She is an independent researcher, writer and curator whose work focuses on art practices and material culture in Ladakh, a region she has been visiting for over three decades. Her doctoral degree in Social Anthropology, from Oxford University, was on the textiles of the nomadic pastoralists of Changthang, and developed into the book Living Fabric: Weaving among the Nomads of Ladakh Himalaya (2002). She has co-edited Ladakh – Culture at the Crossroads (2005), and collaborated on Pashmina – The Kashmir Shawl and Beyond (2009 and 2017), and published several articles on textile arts of the Himalayan Buddhist world. From 2010 to 2016, she was Associate Editor of Marg magazine.