Bhowali

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...

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...