At around 7 pm on 21 July, floodwaters entered Rohini Duwara’s home in Lakwa Abhayapuri village in Assam’s Charaideo district.

His family tried to move towards higher ground as the powerful current rose around them.

Rohini’s wife, Tutumoni Duwara, and their daughter, Bidisha, were swept away first. His sons, Bidyut and Biplab, entered the water in an attempt to save them, but the current carried them away too.

In a matter of minutes, Rohini was separated from his wife and three children.

The bodies of Bidisha, Bidyut and Biplab were later recovered, while the search for Tutumoni continued at the time of the latest available report.

Across Assam, thousands of families are living through their own hours of fear. Homes have disappeared under floodwater, livelihoods have been washed away, and people have waited for rescue on rooftops, embankments and patches of higher ground.

The floods have left behind staggering numbers. Behind each one is a family wondering where it will sleep, how it will protect its children and what will remain when the water recedes.

For many, the first step towards surviving the coming days begins with finding a roof.

The Better India has joined hands with DonateKart to support the Assam-based Association of Social and Human Activists, or ASHA, in procuring emergency tents for displaced families.

Your contribution can give a family a dry place to sleep, protect its food and medicines, and stay together while floodwaters continue to surround their home.

When rivers spread through villages, farms and homes

Weeks of intense rainfall across Assam and the upstream hill catchments have swollen the Brahmaputra and its tributaries far beyond their usual courses.

Rivers such as the Dikhow, Disang and Janji have overflowed, sending water through villages, tea estates and farmland in parts of Upper Assam where residents say they have rarely witnessed flooding on this scale.

Satellite imagery shows how dramatically the landscape has changed.

Near Jorhat, the apparent inundated corridor of the Brahmaputra widened to almost 21 kilometres, around three times its earlier visible extent. This measurement represents the total spread of water along the selected stretch, including flooded sandbars, fields and nearby settlements, rather than the permanent river channel alone.

According to the latest report from Assam’s Disaster Reporting and Information Management System cited on 24 July, more than 7.21 lakh people across 11 districts and nearly 900 villages had been affected.

At least 47 people had lost their lives, while several others remained missing. Around 25,375 hectares of cropland had been submerged, more than 24,000 people were staying in relief camps and nearly 1.39 lakh animals had been affected.

Assam Drowns in Deadly Floods.41 dead, over 7 lakh people affected as floods swallow 11 districts. Rivers still rising.Assam is hurting. Homes are gone, lives have been changed forever and even innocent animals have been lost.Please keep every affected family in your… pic.twitter.com/yAt3PCkyvb — زماں (@Delhiite_) July 24, 2026

Assam Drowns in Deadly Floods.41 dead, over 7 lakh people affected as floods swallow 11 districts. Rivers still rising.Assam is hurting. Homes are gone, lives........

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