Four months after the devastating rain disaster that ravaged the Seraj region of Mandi district on June 30, Mukesh Kumar still walks back to the place that once echoed with laughter — his home in Daizy village.

Today, that spot lies silent, marked only by a stone carved with five names — his parents, wife and two young children. It is not a grave, but a memorial to a life washed away.

The flashflood of June 30 changed everything. On that day, torrential rain lashed the hills, turning calm streams into violent torrents. Mukesh was on his way back from Punjab when his wife called him around 8 pm, asking him to stay the night in Thunag. “She was worried about my safety because it was raining heavily,” he recalls softly. That was the last time he heard her voice. Soon after, mobile networks

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