The article highlights Tripura’s devastating August 2024 floods, exacerbated by heavy rainfall and the Dumboor Dam’s overflow. While Bangladesh’s flooding gained media focus, Tripura’s marginalised communities suffered unnoticed. Poor communication and inadequate disaster response worsened their plight,..

Boroks believe that the supreme God, the creator of the universe and mankind, resides in waters. Twima, or the goddess of water, is worshipped as a household as well as village deity, and rituals are carried out in the rivers or stream to propitiate the goddess. Similar beliefs exist in other indigenous communities of Tripura.