Months after devastating floods swept through over 2,400 villages in Punjab, the headlines may have faded — but the pain remains etched in the people’s minds. Crops lie buried under silt, homes are crumbling and the rhythm of rural life has yet to return to normalcy. In this lingering silence, a group of farmers from Samrala has emerged as a beacon of solidarity.

Driven not by duty, but by empathy, these farmers undertook a 200-km journey to deliver relief to villages near Hussainiwala. Their convoy — tractors loaded with sacks of wheat, fertiliser, seeds, food supplies and blankets — was not part of any formal campaign. It was a grassroots act of kinship.

“We didn’t wait for instructions. We just asked ourselves what we’d need if we were in their place,” said Balwinder Singh, one of the

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