Bangladesh Floods 1998

The Disaster Archive Dialogues · Sep 1, 2026 · 31m

In Bangladesh, the monsoon is never just a season. It’s a negotiation with nature, a test that returns year after year. Before the floodwaters of nineteen ninety-eight, people believed they understood the risks. But beneath that confidence, the ground itself was shifting.Bangladesh in the late nineteen nineties was a country shaped by water. The entire nation sits on the vast delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna rivers—a place built from silt and shaped by the monsoon. Here, villages rise on earthen plinths, roads ride just above the fields, and families learn to read the sky as one…