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Between August 25 and September 3, 2025, unprecedented floods and cloudbursts ravaged northern India.

In Punjab, more than 40 people died, nearly 2,000 villages were submerged, over 350,000 people were affected, and 1.75 lakh hectares of crops were destroyed.

Rebuilding Punjab, however, will be a long and multi-phase process, extending far beyond clearing floodwaters.

India’s Northwestern border state and agricultural heartland, Punjab, carries a history both glorious and tragic. The Partition of 1947 divided not just its people but its rivers too. These rivers, once sources of abundance, turned fierce, flooding vast stretches of the land. Yet, the region born of these very rivers stood resilient. It emerged as a beacon of grassroots resilience, where community

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