Bhowali

Fire Began As They Ate Dinner: Uttarakhand Man Recalls Night He Lost Home

The fire came down from the hill, raging, uncontrollable, spreading over the ground littered with dry leaves and pine cones. The animals started running helter-skelter, houses turned into burning torches, lighting up the night. At Tirchakheet, one of the villages worst hit by the ongoing forest fire in Uttarakhand, 45-year-old Shankar has barely go...