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As Assam goes through harrowing floods and their aftermath, different stories emerge. Stories of journalists breaking down while reporting the ravage. A drowning man trying to save a cow rather than his own life. Young people waiting patiently for food donations. Students trying to save and dry their books and stationery even as lives are being lost. Villages reduced to mud, with a buried shoe, a buried comb, a buried skeleton as witnesses. People travelling from far and wide to offer help. Donations pouring in. Humanity showing up with great intensity.

The Assam floods of July 2026 are unlike any the state has seen. They have brought unimaginable destruction and, along with it, extraordinary kindness and brotherhood in an age when digital lives have made it easier to remain passive, to watch from a distance rather than step out and act.

But in the middle of all this, some wise Assamese have discovered another emotion: shame. Meghranjani Medhi, a dancer and actor from the state, took to busking on the streets of London to raise funds for flood-affected people back home.........

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