Char Dham Project – The Speed Of Destruction It was the criminal lack of warning systems on these projects and the deadly impact of climate change that led to the unforgivable agony of our citizens. outlookindia.com 2021-03-04T07:51:42+05:30 The agony of seeing one’s death approach by the second in foaming, roaring wall of dark water while trapped atop the narrow ledge of a dam barrage and then being hurtled down with the deluge while it lashes that last refuge is not easily conceivable. Neither is the horror of a slow death in a tunnel filled with sludge and debris in a world gone black. The intensity of pain of the father and sister who wait for the bulldozers to excavate the living – or the dead – should shake each of us to the core. The criminal lack of warning systems on these projects, the deadly impact of climate change, the unforgivable agony of our citizens: all these warranted a profound introspection. Yet, while the nation and the world were yet under the shock of the February 7 glacial break; when it seemed that the mighty Himalayas were literally buckling under the immense pressure of human interference, our politicians while speaking in Parliament about the Chardham Pariyojana showed scant regard for the destruction it was wreaking in the fragile Himalayas.