India, Aug. 29 -- Punjab is struggling with floods again, and a ghost from 1988 is walking, again, among its people as they struggle to save their fields and homes from angry rivers amid heavy monsoon rain.

Thousands of acres of farmland with paddy (rice) mostly, besides hundreds of houses, across villages along the Sutlej, Beas and Ravi rivers are submerged or marooned.

The 1988 flood comes up often as people speak about their current misery. There are those who were in that nightmare, and those with family history coloured by that event 37 years ago.

"After decades, we are suffering from this situation again. As per my observation, the situation is worse now," Gurnam Singh, former sarpanch of Dugri village near the Ravi in Gurdaspur ...