How a 97-year-old escaped deadly Indian floods on a banana raft
There was no boat, no rescue team and no neighbour available to help. She recalls hearing about a major flood in 1950, long before she was born, but nothing like this had happened during her lifetime.Her home sits in a landscape criss-crossed by rivers, though none runs immediately beside it. But when it did, the flood threatened not only her home, but the livelihood she had spent years building.Baruah was once a full-time journalist.
- ▪There was no boat, no rescue team and no neighbour available to help.
- ▪She recalls hearing about a major flood in 1950, long before she was born, but nothing like this had happened during her lifetime.Her home sits in a landscape criss-crossed by rivers, though none runs immediately beside it.
- ▪But when it did, the flood threatened not only her home, but the livelihood she had spent years building.Baruah was once a full-time journalist.
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| Publication time | Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:11:32 GMT |
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How a 97-year-old escaped deadly Indian floods on a banana raftImage source, AFP via Getty ImagesImage caption, A woman wades through floodwaters outside her inundated house at a village in Assam's Sivasagar BySoutik BiswasIndia correspondentPublished34 minutes agoWell past midnight on 19 July, as floodwaters surged through a village in India's northeastern state of Assam, Bornali Baruah and her husband were trying to save his 97-year-old mother.Almost bedridden, Lokada Duarah could not walk. There was no boat, no rescue team and no neighbour available to help.
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