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Saumya Khandelwal

Parkash Kaur, 85, sits at her home in the village of Rajpur Chib.

Manjinder Kaur, far right, travels home alongside other boat passengers after visiting her parents. Manjinder didn't want to live in the border region because of its isolation, but eventually married and settled there.

A herder swims across the Ravi River with his cattle.

Boota Singh, a blacksmith, sharpens farming tools in Mammi Chak Ranga, India.

Because of the high water level, Sanamdeep crosses the riverbank on her father's back after returning home by boat.

Sanamdeep Kaur and her sister Gurnoor, on left, and their cousins take a scooter to get to school after disembarking from a boat that crosses the river separating India from Pakistan.

Sanamdeep Kaur, second from left, and her classmates look at the photographer’s phone at their school in Jhabkara, India. Sanamdeep is among the children who have to cross the Ravi River on a boat during the monsoon season to get to school.

Gurnoor Kaur changes from a pair of plastic sandals into her school shoes after disembarking from a boat that ferries passengers across the river that serves as an international boundary between India and Pakistan.

Sanamdeep Kaur takes the first boat of the day to cross the river from Makaura Pattan with her sister Gurnoor, left, to get to school.

People arrive from Makaura Pattan on a boat on a day when water levels are unusually high in the Ravi river in Makaura, India.