A woman with her child carries belongings through a flooded boulevard at Banikanto Toli village of Malda district in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal August 24, 2009. The monsoon is crucial to the health of Asia's third-largest economy, although an increasingly diversified economy means a deficient monsoon has less of an impact on the overall economy than in past dry years, and strength in manufacturing and urban demand could offset disappointing crop output. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri (INDIA DISASTER ENVIRONMENT)
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