Writer Mod Date & Time PARTITION: Tape 50 255MODEM 255MODEM Mar 17 10:04 TAPE 50 YASHPAUL VAID - interviewed at Chandigarh on 17 March 1997 - brother of Krishna Baldev Vaid, and like him lived thro the massacre at Dinga; aged ten or eleven at the time; retired teacher of Hindi literature - quiet and mild-mannered; also written Hindi short stories - born 4 Dec 1936 Side A 15 - attended Pakistan ind day ceremony (? in Dinga), 'I remember being there with my father and it was peace, but the fear was there; most of hs went to join celebrn of flag hoisting ... fear was there in the minds' 25 - few days later, some people started heading out to India 'and the fear was there ... H comm started coming together to discuss the way out ... none of them wanted to leave, but life was in danger' 50 - news came of cities being burnt, 'pindi, and villages 'and the nights were v sleepless nights; I remember leaving our own house and spending th night in another house' 70 - believes Dinga riot was Sept - cos when reached Jallandhar 'it was not winter, it was summer' 80 > packing away goods in boxes, and storing under stairs 'perhaps this calamity will pass and it may be alright' 104 - finally left house in an afternoon; local M had earlier told father that he sd come when trouble happens; 136 - 'we left the house as there were big voices of the villagers, aggressors, who had come [from] outside the town; as we heard, we rushed, leaving everything' 160 - first gathered in a house of Hindus, then left that (? over rooves) to a Hindu shop; 'somebody must have seen ... and by evening ... we were sitting like this, squeezing, squeezing, and there was no hope of life at that time ... the people safeguarding us were on the rooftops, commanding the people, aggressors' 190 - 'some people knocked on the doors, so we sd we were gone ... but that man perhaps sd there's nobody, nobody nobody, just go, go; they went away' 203 - then went to rear of house to place where buffalos kept, small room for their food and charras; 'we went there and we were able to hide ... in that small room' 215 - 'we had been hearing the cries, shots, maybe pistols, mostly the agressors had sharp weapons ... earlier I remember I had seen them preparing in the bazaars, getting the lathis and all that ... we cd hear the cries, cries ... and then by the evening we cd see the houses on fire ... peeping thro the door' 235 - had loose motions; voices outside 250 - not sure whether hiding for two nights or one night 254 - 'at midnight, that person [one of two protectors] ... he came with something to eat for us, rice; he enetred and as we opened, he instructed why have you opened