Click to play videoBavla (Gujarat): The monsoon gives, but it also takes away. For the second year running, everything Kava Bhai Solanki owns has been washed away - not by the rain, but by floodwaters flowing into Dingda village from other districts in Saurashtra.
"This happens everytime. Last year too this happened. I made all these mattresses but everything still got washed out," says he.
At least 40 other villages in the Bhavla taluka have been flooded by water from Bhavnagar, Amreli and Junagarh. In Bhansali village in the same district, the rains have spelt tragedy for the Bharwad community.
These traditional cattle-rearers have lost their most precious assets to the monsoon.
Says a resident of Bhansali village, Kaitha Bhai, "The heavy downpour has killed all rains have village has been inundated."
15,000 villagers from the district are now being moved to safer ground. The rain has also cut off access to villages in 12 other districts, affecting movement in the state.
Rahgavji Bhai, who was travelling from Mumbai to Bhavnagar to attend a wedding, says Vadodara was as far as he could get.
Flooding has become such a regular feature in this area, that people are left with no other option but to wait for the waters to recede before life comes back to normal again.
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