This Remote Village Gets 5x More Rain Than Mumbai Every Year — How Does It Survive?

In Mawsynram, the wettest inhabited place on Earth, people have learned something most of us never will: how to live with rain that rarely stops. Before roads turn slippery with moss and clouds descend low enough to hide the hills, villagers prepare for what they know is coming — weeks of relentless rain. In a place that receives an average of 11,872 millimetres of rainfall every year, surviving the monsoon has never been about avoiding the rain. It has been about adapting to it. One of the most remarkable examples of that adaptation is the knup.   For generations, people in Mawsynram’s vil...