Umananda Pathuri keeps a watchful eye on his eight-year-old daughter while his wife naps with their toddler. Outside their house in Nikori, a village in one of northeast India’s most flood-prone districts in the state of Assam, flood waters are rising and the rains are incessant. “We’re the Mising, Assam’s... The post The Modern Makeover of Assam’s Centuries-Old Stilt Houses appeared first on Reasons to be Cheerful.| Reasons to be Cheerful
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