Hardeep/Hardip Chatrath I remember him as "Billa Chacha". He was my father's younger brother. In 1947 our extended family staying in Sialkot and Lahore got uprooted. My father, had left that city two decades earlier after passing his LL.B from Punjab University, Lahore and had started practising Law at Ferozepur. Just before partition he was appointed to the Punjab Civil Service and posted as City Magistrate, Amritsar. So around August 1947 members of our larger family came to our house in Amritsar and took shelter there. One of them was Hardeep or Hardip Chatrath, my father's younger brother. He was called Billa as he had very light eyes. While the others, stunned by the blow of partition, were still struggling to start life af...
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