Paramjeet Singh has never been to his hometown in Pakistan, but in his mind, he can picture a vivid image of what it looks like with the tidbits of information his father and other elders in the family shared with him. His eyes shimmer with tears as he begins telling the story of thousands of others, like his family members, who had to flee their homes for survival post-partition.
His family members, even in their wildest of imaginations, would not have thought that 30 years down the lane, a small peaceful city on the banks of River Krishna, thousands of kilometres from their village in Pakistan, would become their home. Yet, this is where fate has brought them. And now, they call Vijayawada their home.
At present, there are 45 Sikh families, apart from a few Punjabi families, who came to Vijayawada as refugees and settled down in Vijayawada around the time of partition of India in 1947.
