Majid Ali Hashmi – The CAP Podcast #170

Mr. Majid Ali Hashmi was born in 1930 in Shimla. He went to school and college in Ferozpur and Ludhiana before Partition. His father was a station master in the Indian Railways and was transferred to Bahawalnagar as the station master in the summer of 1947 just before Partition took place. Mr. Hashmi went to Bahawalnagar with his father and the rest of the family followed them after. Living in the railway station, Mr. Hashmi witnessed the process of migration very closely. On one chaotic day, his father asked him to bring a new telegram book from the station’s store room so he could inform senior officials about the conditions at the railway station. Mr. Hasmi found the store room locked from the inside; he saw five Sikhs hiding in the store room. In this interview he talks about how he and his father hid those Sikhs for 4-5 days from Muslim mobs and safely sent them to India on a military train.