"Din par din palayan hi hai (everyday, people are fleeing)," says Krishna Kishore, a resident of Gyuntha in Uttarakhand’s Pauri Garhwal district. Kishore and his wife Poonam Devi are among the two families left behind in the tiny hamlet ravaged by mass migration. Their two children have settled in Rishikesh. Gyuntha is not an isolated case. Dotting Uttarakhand are hundreds of such desolate villages, where dozens of families lived earlier. The