India, Aug. 2 -- Out of the around 1,000 cows in the village before the flood, only about 15 to 20 remain.

The first thing that hits visitors to Nepali Khuti is the smell. A thick, sour stench of rotting animal carcasses hangs over what was once a thriving Gorkha dairy village on the banks of the Dikhow river, near the AssamNagaland border, about 12 km from Nazira. Today, thick layers of grey mud and silt cover roads, courtyards and paddy fields. Half-standing walls, twisted tin sheets, scattered bamboo poles and piles of broken timber mark the places where homes once stood. A few lonely cows wander through the devastation. The village, which once produced and sold around 1.5 quintals of milk every day, now has almost no dairy activity l...