Indian woman Anowara Bewa, 65, sits inside a makeshift temporary hut in the flood affected Gagalmari village in Assam state, India, July 2, 2012.
Severe monsoon flooding across the northeastern states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh in June and July led to swollen rivers displacing some 6.9 million people. In August and September, a second period of flooding left another two million people homeless in the same region.