A group of men playing carrom: not a sight one would expect in a region recovering from a devastating tragedy. "This is only a distraction to forget what we have been through," said Laxmi Prasad who lost his shop in Rambada near Kedarnath and walked home five days later. Many, like him, in the Ukhimath region are survivors; others have lost their loved ones in the Kedarnath disaster. What they have in common is a shared loss of livelihood.