When the Waters Came

Floods don’t ask politely. They arrive like uninvited guests—loud, messy, taking up space that was never theirs. In late August 2025, Punjab woke to that same familiar nightmare. The rivers Sutlej, Beas, Ravi, and Ghaggar overflowed with a fury that seemed unstoppable. Villages were swallowed whole. Roads that connected families for generations vanished beneath waves of brown water.

On paper, the devastation looks clinical: more than 2,200 villages submerged, nearly 2.2 million acres of farmland destroyed, and 13 districts left battered. Pathankot, Gurdaspur, Fazilka, Kapurthala, Tarn Taran, Ferozepur, Hoshiarpur, and Amritsar bore the heaviest blows. Crops that families had nurtured all year—paddy fields weeks away from harvest—were erased in hours.

But numbers don

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