And Joshimath has already shown the dangers ahead. We have to acknowledge that our mountains are still young babies. You don t put an extra load on the back of a growing child!
THE Joshimath disaster was man-made; the civic authorities refused to enforce the carrying-capacity rules of the area and so overloading led to the collapse of the ground support.
Hugh and Colleen Gantzer
THIS is an engagingly written book which is likely to become a classic. The author of ‘The Anglo-Indians: A Portrait of a Community’, Barry O’Brien, heads t