DHARAMPAAL VACCHAR

“My uncle said, ‘I’ll give you the wood, I’ll give you all the wheat we have, get my brother back.’ They said, ‘We are not interested.’ My uncle couldn’t get his brother and he was later killed.”

Dharampaal Vacchar, now 83, moved from a village in Sialkot to India when he was 11 years old. His father was tragically left behind during Partition on the other side of the border. His journey to India was through Jammu, then Amritsar, and ultimately he settled in Bombay in 1955.