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PARTITION: Tape 33
TAPE 33
Writer Mod Date & Time
255MODEM 255MODEM Jan 28 07:18
Side B
Saroj PACHAURI
- interviewed at her office in Delhi, 28 Jan 1997
- nee Puri; brought up in a Sikh family in Rawalpindi; fled in
Aug-Sept 1947, then aged 10; father a prominent lawyer in 'pindi,
mother a hospital doctor, and had a younegr brother; herself a
doctor and regional director of the Population Council; married to
a Hindu; went back to 'pindi c 5 years ago; Delhi house attacked
in 84 anti-Sikh riots
5 - family background; mother a doctor, born and brought
up in Quetta, in 'pindi in charge of civil hospital;
father first a prof at Gordon College, then a lwayer
and leading lawyer in Rawalpindi; v well off family,
lived in campus of district hospital; 'I had a
wonderful childhood'
54 - friends were friends regardless of religion - best
friend a M girl - 'we participated in every function
together, we ate together'
85 - serious riots in 'pindi in March 47; 'they were pretty
serious actually ... a lot of lives were threatened and
I became highly conscious of if cos a lot of our
friends, H friends, who felt vuln in the city migrated
to our house' for a few weeks; shops were closed, food
not avail, ate a lot of canned food; 'our house was
safe cos it was in the hosp campus'
106 - 'there was panic in the city, and one heard all kinds
of stories ... but the month of March kind of receded
in our memory, cos things improved after that'
122 - mother a Gandhian, wanted to go to India; father tho
had 'decided that there was absolutely no reason to
move, that this is our home, that there is where he'd
built his practice ... nand he didn't see any reason
to move, and there was a decision that we were going
to stay in Pak'
132 - 'to show his loyalty ... publicly, on 15th [?] Aug
1947, he particvipated in all the events in R'pindi
to celebrate Pak's ind, and he was the keynote speaker |
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