Setting up of a farmers producers organisation (FPO) in Assam’s Barpeta has resulted in better profits for the fishers hailing from the rural areas. Not only has the FPO provided the ease of doing business to these fisherfolk but has also helped in ensuring better market access.

Pre-monsoon showers are not uncommon in Assam but the intensity with which they have unleashed destruction in the northeastern state hasn't been witnessed by its residents in the months prior to the arrival of the monsoon. Here is how the state population is coping up with the mayhem caused by heavy rainfall, floods and landslides. Details here.

A writer fondly recalls her grandmother’s special dish made with a special kind of tita phool (bitter flowers) that was carefully prepared to keep coughs, colds and fevers at bay from her beloved family members.

असम में प्री-मानसून की बारिश नई बात नहीं है, लेकिन जिस तरह से इसने पूर्वोत्तर राज्य में तबाही मचाई है, पहले यहां के लोगों ने ऐसा कभी नहीं देखा था। पढ़िए असम की एक बड़ी आबादी भारी वर्षा, बाढ़ और भूस्खलन के कारण हुई तबाही से कैसे जूझ रही है।