Uttarakhand: The climate change widows of India
(WorldNews Environment)

Haruli Devi sat on the ground in front of her new two-room house in Singhali village in the hilly northern state of Uttarakhand. For early winter, the afternoon sun was unusually strong as the 65-year-old removed her sweater and wiped her eyes. “My husband was killed in the landslide,â€� she said, remembering the day she became a widow in July two years ago. Her 72-year-old spouse died in a cloudburst in the nearby village of Bastari. She now lives alone, while her two sons work in New Delhi. Haruli Devi says the widows have become as lifeless as the ruins of Bastari village (Arpita Chakrabarty/Al Jazeera) “The rain didn´t stop, even for a minute. Thunderous lightning made us...