Video: Indian journalist perches on flood survivor's shoulders Narayan Pargaien, who works for the local News Express channel, told Indian media website newslaundry.com that the criticism he has faced since the video was posted online was unfair. It has been viewed more than 11,600 times since being published on June 22. The man "wanted to show me some respect, as it was the first time someone of my level had visited his house. So while crossing the river he offered to help by carrying me ... between which, I thought of reporting," Mr Pargaien said. The report was supposed to be telecast only with footage of me chest-up. This was entirely the cameraman's fault, who ... tried to sabotage my career by shooting from that distance and angle and releasing the video," he said. I was wrong as well. That was the wrong thing to do, and the wrong time to have shot that sequence. But what my cameraman did was even more unacceptable. Some 1,000 people have died in flash floods and landslides caused by heavy downpours in India's Uttarakhand state, known as the "Land of the Gods" for its revered Hindu shrines. Helicopters and soldiers have evacuated tens of thousands of people, but several thousand pilgrims and tourists remain stranded throughout the state since early rains struck on June 15. Edited by Chris Irvine at telegraph.co.uk