Kharapathar, Himachal Pradesh, India, 12 December 2016, 1700 hours:

Just as we were about to reach Kharapathar, the traffic was stopped as work was in progress on the road. After looking at the scene, I couldn’t help thinking how would the person in the ‘digger’ be feeling, operating a machine on top of the debris from the mountain side, while he manoeuvred the machine picking up the debris from one corner and displacing it on the other side.

The brave “digger” working on the road just before Khara Patthar; Photo: Abhinav Kaushal