The men in this picture were the only non-white students of their batch. My grandfather was a doctor in the British Army, posted at Manora Island Cantonment, near Karachi, when Partition took place. The family boarded the train to Firozpur and later reached Faridkot, where they spent three nights at the railway platform before the Maharaja of Faridkot employed my grandfather as his personal physician.
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PHOTO: SARAH J KAZI/INDIAN MEMORY PROJECT
CONCEPT: SANAM MAHER
DESIGN: SAMRA AMIR
This August, The Express Tribune will feature photographs from contributions to an open call for images from the struggle for independence and Pakistan’s formative years.
Concept: Sanam Maher
Published in The Express Tribune, August 3rd, 2014.
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@Satinder Pal Singh: try to come to Pakistan and look this house if it exists or visit the streets where your forefather grew up.
It will be amazing journey for you..
When I see such pics , my throat simply chocks .
@excalibur:::When it comes to HISTORY even stones of a particular area speak and tell stories of those people and days gone by,which are our foundations.Only problem here is that one has to use the eyes and ears of his mind to see and listen to them to remain in touch with the past,of which we are the continuation,to one day become the past
I am Sarah's father and my father Dr Preetam Pal Singh is the one sitting on the chair.Before partition his family belonged to Gujjarkhan,near Rawalpindi now In Pakistan.His father was also a doctor and had his clinic in Gujjarkhan,adjacent to the GT Road.Across the road there was a Dusehra ground and my older sisters say they could see the railway station from the roof of their house.The house still exists.I am a post-partition product(1950 born) -and so have no recollection of the area but my sisters ,nearly 80yrs old now have vivid fond memories of their childhood spent there.
what is the relevance of all this to Pakistan ? Aman ki Asha repeat ?
Sardars rule and have always ruled. Sat Sri Akal.
They had swag
in some batch, it is possible. Not always