Projects Long-form series

Kosi: The Sorrow of Bihar

A long-running body of reporting on the Kosi river — embankment breaches, shifting land, relief camps and families who rebuild every monsoon.

‘The river warns us, the government ignores us’

A long-running body of reporting on the Kosi river — embankment breaches, shifting land, relief camps and families who rebuild every monsoon.

Stories from this Project

FloodReport

‘The river warns us, the government ignores us’

Early flood warnings offer scant relief, as families in north Bihar’s floodplains are left stranded every year—without evacuation plans or adequate relief…

People’s Archive of Rural India

FloodReport

Kosi: ‘The sorrow of Bihar’

The people who live on the embankments of the Kosi river are relentlessly ravaged by the river and neglected by the state

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