Severe flooding in Assam (a state in northeast India prone to annual inundation by the Brahmaputra river system) has killed at least 100 people, damaged more than 19,000 homes, and displaced roughly 1.2 million people across 25 districts, with over 75,000 sheltering in relief camps. The disaster has struck areas not historically prone to flooding, including Charing village in Sivasagar district, where one family evacuated a 97-year-old bedridden woman on a makeshift raft of banana trunks as floodwaters reached five feet inside their home. Geographers warn that the worsening floods reflect not just climate-driven changes in the Brahmaputra's behaviour but also expanded settlement on floodplains, deforestation, and infrastructure built without accounting for the region's hydrology — problems that experts say require coordinated, basin-wide planning across multiple Indian states.