'From environmental impact assessment to forest clearances, this has turned out to be an unscientific road-widening project with catastrophic consequences.'
'There were literally thousands of houses with cracks.' '40 percent of the town has been affected.'
'The entire public needs to be evacuated immediately. Any day, the entire town can collapse.'
'My belief that I could protect the Himalayas was shattered.'
'The present government swears by Hinduism. But we lost three of our sants during earlier BJP regimes.'
Fires are blazing across Jammu and Kashmir, the state of Uttarakhand and have reached the doorstep of Himachal Pradesh's capital city Shimla.