From Pakistan to India: Tracing my grandmother's refugee journey
From Pakistan to India: Tracing my grandmother’s refugee journey Tavleen Tarrant © The writer's grandmother, Abnash Kaur [Photo courtesy of Tavleen Tarrant] The writer's grandmother, Abnash Kaur [Photo courtesy of Tavleen Tarrant] Sometime in mid-August 1947, my grandmother, Abnash Kaur, then about 12 years of age, boarded a train with her family from Lahore in what is now Pakistan. The journey would take her to Kalka, a sleepy Indian town in the foothills of the Himalayas. She would never return to Pakistan. Like an estimated 15 million others, she was a refugee – forc...
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