EVEN as Sonam Wangchuk was arrested and silenced in a Jodhpur jail, his message to protect the environment continued to reverberate across the Himalayan states — not in slogans and protests but amplified by Nature herself in benumbing devastation.
Never before have people in the Himalayas had to contend with such widespread occurrence of mountainsides crumbling, roads vanishing and homes being destroyed. There have also been accompanying deaths and, perhaps worse than death itself, the trauma of uncertainty.