Virender MENDIRATTA - Hindu, Gandhian, noted short-story writer and theatre director; in Lahpre in 47; interviewed at his home in Chandigarh, 16 Mar 97 (most!-recorded over) 162 - 'we were living in Lahore but we were v v confident that L was going to be given to India, so we felt v comfortable; ... we all felt L was going to go to I that we'll get Lahore, ... people from Jan Maganya ? nr Lyallpur ... all our reins came from JM and started living in L; in L too in April, May riots started, and from our roofs we used to see in some mohalla there were some houses on fire'