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No One Heard the Harvest Cry is a twelve-chapter non-fiction narrative that traces the socio-political history of Punjab’s farmers from 1947 to 2025. Moving through Partition, the Green Revolution, Operation Blue Star, the rise of drug addiction, farmer suicides, land loss, the 2020–21 protests, and their aftermath, this book is both a timeline and a testimony.Each chapter focuses on a distinct decade or moment, weaving historical events with the emotional realities on the ground. The tone is sharp, empathetic, and deeply grounded in the voices of those who lived it. Through recurring motifs of silence, soil, and survival, the book explores what it means to inherit both land and struggle.It is a story about feeding a country while going hungry. About headlines that never made it to Delhi. About tractors turned coffins. And about pride that refuses to die, even when policy forgets.Ultimately, No One Heard the Harvest Cry is not just about Punjab’s farmers. It is about labour and loss. Protest and persistence. The human cost of national growth.It is memory, reckoning, and resistance written with the urgency of someone who grew up watching the quiet collapse and couldn’t stay quiet any longer.About the Author: Iram Kaur Pannu is a young writer and student from Punjab, India. Her writing has often been recognised for its emotional resonance, critical insight, and clarity of voice. Deeply interested in the intersections of history, politics, and lived experience, she writes to excavate stories that are often overlooked or unheard.