Discourses From the East

How Many Floods Must We Witness Before We Admit We Are Fools?
Every monsoon in Assam follows the same script: rivers swell, embankments breach, villages vanish under water, relief camps fill, crops are lost, roads dissolve into silt. Then the water recedes, compensation is announced, embankments are patched, and the state exhales—until next year, when the script repeats almost exactly.





