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Partition of India in 1947 is not distant for many yet. To them, it is as if it was yesterday. What a colossal tragedy it was! A letter received from a gentleman now settled in New York has given me sleepless nights. I would like our readers to share the experience of this gentleman. His long letter has been edited.
"Currently, I live in New York presently as Mickey Nivelli. From 1937 to 1947, in Quetta Baluchistan I was Harbhajan Singh, a student of St. Francis Grammar School. I was born in Loralai.
When the British partitioned India, in 1947, Quetta experienced a killing frenzy. During those dark days,my family of nine, youngest brother hardly being a few months old,were all fleeing for our lives from Natha Singh Street Quetta.
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Just then we noticed another fleeing family being mercilessly killed in front of Arya Samaj. That made us panic and we rushed into a nearby park then called Sandeman Hall. My father and mother, in an effort to save their 7 children,were running helter skelter like frightened, hunted animals.
My mother, in all this drama realized that my eldest brother was missing. No movie scene can ever describe my mother's pathetic hysteria after this.
Surgeon Bliss then moved my entire family to Civil Hospital because it had military guards. At the hospital, we began searching the wounded and the corpses for my brother. Fortunately my father met a friendly truck driver. This kind man took my father in his truck and helped him to find our brother. He was alive because he had panicked and run back to the house we fled. Daddy found him hiding there, trembling with fright.
Thereafter we suffered many days,weeks and months of hunger, horrors and homelessness. All this stress, loss of our birthplace, home and heart , caused my father's death soon after we escaped to India.We becamedestitute once again.
Please help me find Anthony Bliss or any member of his family. They saved the lives of nine helpless and hopeless members of my family from a horrible fate.
Please help me pay my debt. Thank you very much....Mickey Nivelli". |
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