Isolated and dreary all winter long, Leh springs to life in summer when vegetables ripen in the fields and tourists swarm in from 11,500 feet below, filling up 80 hotels and guest houses in the world's highest desert.
The minister, Jagdish Tytler, said that from now on, when philandering pilots are winging their way north to Leh, their paramours will be on a plane headed south to Tiruchirapalli.