The climate trouble on India’s roads
Bengaluru-based writer and educationist Chandrika R. Krishnan has made five visits to the mountains in North India in the last decade. And each time, her road journeys have gotten delayed because of landslides.“I remember waiting it out in Kashmir, Ladakh and Uttarakhand because rainfall-triggered landslides had temporarily blocked the road,” Krishnan told ISignal.Some of these visits were outside the monsoon window. Krishnan visited Leh and Ladakh in August 2019, Char Dham (the four sacred Hindu Himalayan shrines) in May 2022, Amarnath and Kashmir in May 2024, Adi Kailash in June 2025, and…
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