At 9.30 am on Aug 26, Laxmi Pandey rushed to the fourth floor of her mint-green family home with her 11-year-old daughter. Minutes before that, she was about to send little Pradisha off to school, but several people on the road told her that further up, the Trishuli river had flooded its banks and things didn't look good.

Varanasi resident Shivani Chaurasia watched her family’s life in Nepal collapse as floodwaters swept through the Trishuli area. Her father Ashok, who has run a cloth business…

Sheltering with relatives or in temporary camps, survivors of devastating floods in Nepal say they can no longer rebuild their homes after the landscape was violently transformed