Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Sep 29 (PTI) Just last week, Shriram Datkhile was a prosperous dairy farmer from the Dharashiv district of Maharashtra, having a successful business generating Rs 3.5 lakh per month.

Now, he is staying in an onion shed, and in a heart-wrenching twist of fate, is left with "no pair of clothes of his own" after catastrophic floods washed away his entire life.

Datkhile, 55 years old, and his extended family operated a prosperous milk dairy in Telgaon Pimpalgaon village of Bhum tehsil, toiled hard to develop the business from a small number of milch animals to a considerable number of cattle, including 40 cows and 20 goats.

The torrential floods that ravaged the Marathwada region of Maharashtra last week not only destroyed homes and farms — they destroyed years of

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