Sonam Wangchuk, who is credited to have changed the education landscape of Ladakh, today said women are increasingly playing ice hockey there.
"Ladakh is the winter sports capital in India, a place where ice hockey and ice skating are quite popular. Fifteen years ago ice hockey was completely dominated by men, now it is a different story.
"We have a girls' team competing internationally as well," Wangchuk, who was the inspiration behind Aamir Khan's character of Phunsukh Wangdu in the film '3 Idiot', said at a discussion of the CII Eastern Region and Young Indians (Yi) Kolkata Chapter here today.
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"The women ice hockey teams did very well in tourneys in Taipei and Bangkok. In Asia Challenge Cup. So now both men and women's teams doing well in ice hockey," he said at a CII event here.
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