In August, a large amount of glacier and rock detached itself from above the Trishuli valley in Nepal and moved downwards at highway speed. Within a few days, rescue workers in Uttar Pradesh were retrieving bodies from rivers located more than 200 kilometres downstream of the landslide. By early September the Ganga at Patna was breaking century-old records, four million people in Bihar had been impacted and Assam had already buried about a hundred of its own after several weeks submerged in water. The rivers changed but the response did not. Once again, the country turned to boats, tarpaulin and relief cheques.
