Parveen and the roughly 1,000 residents of Bihagaon Chapori live along the flood-prone silt-laden riverbanks, or chapori, of Jia Bharali, one of the major tributaries of the Assam's Brahmaputra River. The village is about 25 kilometres from Tezpur, the cultural capital of Assam, and is accessible via a narrow, sandy road that becomes especially challenging during monsoon.