His students includes top political leaders, doctors, scholars and other intelligentsia of Ladakh on 23 June 2001.

His grandfather Samuel Joldan was post master at Leh while his father Jonathan Tharchin Joldan was an important trade official entitled Aksakal - official in charge of the Central Asian Trade between Yarkand and Leh.

When he returned to Leh in 1940 after completing his education, his mother & other relatives hoped him to join the then high ranking position of a Tehsildar.

During his service, he mentored a lot of students who later went on to become highly ranked officials, political leaders, doctors and engineers.

Some of the letters preserved by one of his daughters with the intention of publishing them into a book form were destroyed in the 2014 floods in Kashmir.

[2] After retirement he spent his time writing besides running a guest house which was started in the year 1983.