Salvage mode: Villagers collecting belongings, damaged by floodwaters, outside their house after the Ravi river overflowed following the monsoon rains in the village of Rajpur Chib near the Gurdaspur district. — AFP
The fields are full but the padi brown and wilted, and the air thick with the stench of rotting crops and livestock – the aftermath of record monsoon rains that have devastated India’s breadbasket.
In Punjab, often dubbed the country’s granary, the damage is unprecedented: floods have swallowed farmlands almost the size of London and New York City combined.
