Flood-hit Punjab villages face Diwali in darkness and despair
The festival of lights is just around the corner, yet darkness looms large over the flood-ravaged villages of Sultanpur Lodhi, Kapurthala, Punjab, as families struggle with the loss of homes, fields. Pargat Singh, a farmer from Rampur Gaura who owned 1.5 acres of land, had worked hard to build a two-room house, but his home was washed away by the floods.