Farmer Sukhwinder Singh uses a wooden boat to commute in his village, Fatehgarh Sabrah, near Harike town, after the recent floods. The inundation has completely destroyed Singh’s vegetable fields. He saw similar damage in 2023, leading to huge crop losses (Photograph: Mandeep Punia)
Natural Disasters

Why Punjab flooded

Heavy rains over the last two weeks of August in Punjab, combined with torrential downpours in upstream Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh that swelled the rivers, triggered the state’s worst floods since 1988

Pulaha Roy

This infographic was originally published in the September 16-30, 2025 print edition of Down To Earth