In Assam, low-cost solutions for flood and soil erosion get you nowhere. Or they — as was the case with social worker Sanjoy Ghose — get you killed. Villagers in Majuli, a flood-prone island in the Brahmaputra, 320 km east of Guwahati, believe that the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom killed Ghose in 1997 because his cheap flood control and anti-erosion techniques using local resources exposed a contractor-official-militant nexus that caused the most of people’s miseries.