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"...After a ten day tour of heritage sites in Pakistan I crossed over at Wagah into Amritsar. I had been regularly posting on instragram the places I found and visited. One message came from a Pakistani family settled in Yorkshire whose mother Sugran Bibi had been born in Noor Mahal in British India in 1940. She left her ancestral house in 1947 with her parents to cross the new border into Faislabad in Pakistan never to see her home again. As I was travelling to Chandigar the next day and passing the town famous for its Mughal Sarai at Noor Mahal which features in folk songs, I asked Sugran Bibi’s daughter to send me as much details of what her mother remembered. She sent me a voice note. She had no address of her former house but all she remembered was that behind the house was a Shiv Mandir and her house was next to the main road to the railway station. In front of the house was a ‘Thurra', a raised platform where elders would sit, and a Thukia belonging to a Muslim peer with a well beside it. I started from the railway station asking around and was sent to one mandir to another until finally someone directed me to the Shiv Mandir in the old part of the town. Turning the street an old British-era house had the raised platform. I Hoped this would be the house as all the others had been demolished and rebuilt around it. I sent the all footage including one I filmed of inside the house. After a couple hours wait, her daughter messaged me in delight that this indeed was her mother’s house. Sugran Bibi sent me a voice note thanking me as she had not seen this since 1947 which I voiced over the final footage! (Listen to her in the second slide)" - submitted by @peter.bance
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