Floods come with untold suffering and immense miseries to the people. Their belongings are washed away. Houses collapse and people are rendered homeless. Many men, women, children and cattle are swept away by the current of the river. Floods destroy crops standing in the fields and cause famine. They also cause epidemics. Many people lose their resources and tools and thus lose their occupation. It is a very pitiable sight to see cattle being washed away by the current of the river during the floods. But the most scary & nasty scene appears, when waters all around receded, reptiles which came with water at the time of floods, now starts dying in absence of their shelter. A little more than 30 years ago, way back in 1979 in Assam, floods washed a large number of reptiles ashore on the sandbar. One day, after the waters had receded, a 16 year old teenager named Jadav "Molai" Payeng found the place dotted with the dead reptiles all over. The snakes died because of ...