"This is my personal experience, during partition. It was 1947, my husband was working as chief accountant in United commercial Bank in a town called Amritsar in Punjab. Lahore was an hour by train from Amritsar. We were staying in the city very near to the bank. The Golden Temple of Amritsar was 10 minutes walking distance. We had colonies of Hindus and Muslims all living closely. All of sudden in the end of May riots broke out in the whole of Punjab. Wherever the Muslims were in majority, they killed Hindus and Sikhs and Hindus and Sikhs Punjabis also started to kill wherever they were in majority. It was a horrible sight for those who had to go out for their work or jobs. We ladies and children did not go out at all, but my husband used to go every day to open the bank. As chief cashier  he had the keys of the bank safe to open the bank for public for couple of hours every day. They could not keep the bank closed. Then he went in the morning, I was always afraid, that he may not come back home. Since he was not Sikh, the Muslims were not very sure whether he was a Muslim or Hindu. At night one could see from the roof, homes on fire. It was summer, we did not have air conditioning in the houses. We all had fans, all the houses had flat roof tops, we had cots (beds) made of wood & jutes and in the evening we all sprinkled water on the roof. It made it cooler at night. We slept under the blue sky and stars. We could see at night some houses on fire it looked that the whole town was burning. We had big doors in the front of each colony. That was the only way to enter each colony. Our men every night used to watch that door by rotation so that no one could enter and burn our houses. The curfew was ordered at night they could lift curfew for few hours we could buy only lentils, rice, oil, potatoes and onions. We could not get any fresh fruits or fresh vegetables as the vendors also were afraid of their safety. For milk we would send someone to bring it for us. Nothing was easy. When it got worse, they enforced martial Law, it was to shoot at sight order for the police. The Muslims took so many Hindus young girls and raped them, made them parade on the road naked with only a green flag on their body. The green flag was Muslims sign at that time. At night then we went out on flat roof top we heard a chat in Hindi slogans "Jo Bole So Nihal, Sat Shree Akal" and Allah Akbar all night. They wanted to tell each other that they were awake and are taking care of their colonies. After partition there, police found so many Hindu girls and rescued them and brought them back to their parents. It was a shame that their parents would not accept them. Thus became such a mess to keep these girls in the refugee camps for how long? There was chaos in the whole of Punjab.
    Since I had two little girls and I could not get even milk everyday for them, we decided that I could go to Karachi, where there was no trouble. My parents were in Hyderabad Sind and my in-laws were in Karachi. I took a train to Karachi. In the train, I heard that in the train before ours, the Muslims had pulled out all Hindu men, women and children and killed them on the platform at Multan. Multan as a border town of Punjab and Sind. You can imagine what must be my condition. In the whole journey, I did not speak to anyone or aid anything as to who was I. I was holding my both girls tight, praying to God and by Grace of God , I reached Karachi.I was in Karachi or a month when on 14th August it was decided that India was divided in the Pakistan and India. They gave half Punjab, whole Sind to Pakistan and thus 15th August, India became an independent country. Amritsar in India and Lahore in Pakistan became a border on one side. Now Muslims from Hindu side of Punjab  started coming to Sind with the stories how Sikh and Punjabi Hindus had killed Muslims. They did not mention what they did to Hindus and Sikhs. So, as we Sindhis are peace loving people and did not fight or wanted to kill,  so any Sindhies started to leave Sind. My husband came to Karachi to take us back to Amritsar. I had three young sisters and one sister in law. My mother and my mother-in-law told us to take the girls with us. They had so much to decide, what to do, where to go. We left Karachi by ship to Bombay. There were only a few cabins and hundreds of people wanted to go. We all had to come as deck passengers. Pakistan police and customs did not let us take with us anything except clothes. We managed to bring our jewellery and cash on our waist and I brought four young girls with me as my mother was scared that Muslims refugees might repeat abducting girls like Punjab. It was August monsoon season.The sea was rough and so many people were sea sick. It was a terrible journey to Bombay. Although our Sindhi Muslims were very friendly with us and for years we stayed as neighbours and went to same schools, same colleges but who knows what could have happened. When our ship arrived at Bombay, some rich Sindhi businesses who were well settled in Bombay arranged for everyone who came by Ship to stay few days until they can think where to go. Some one took us to Kalbadevi and they called it a refugee Camp. There were few huge rooms like a big hall and we kept our luggage around and slept on floor in between . So many families were in that hall. They gave all of us hot meals, tea coffee and milk. It was really very nice of them. Maximum one can stay for a week. We managed to get tickets for Delhi and we left in a couple of days for Delhi. When we reached Delhi, it was impossible to get a train for Amritsar. No body cared for reservation for first class coach. It was chaos at the railway station. People were travelling even on the roofs of the train. Muslims were leaving Hindu side of Pakistan and coming to Lahore via Amritsar. We knew someone in Army and we managed to get a ride in Military Convoy. The Convoy was going with empty trucks to rescue Hindus from Pakistan to India. They were going to Lahore. My husband had to resume his duty so we went in a Military convoy. They gave us one empty truck and we all sat there and carried tins of food, bread, water and milk for kids. At night the convoy would stop in a military camps and then start in the morning. We reached Amritsar in three days. We were very safe with the military people but I will never forget this experience in my life. On 8th of January 1948, Muslims refugees (Mohargees) started to loot and killed some people in their own houses in Sind. They wanted Sindhi Hindus to go away from Sindh. It frightened so many Hindus. My parents and in-laws also decided to leave Hyderabad  and Karachi Sind. they left their furnished houses and other things behind. They tried to sell the houses but no body wanted to buy. Muslims immigrants knew that they will get everything for free. My brothers and brothers-in-law left their jobs. When Muslims refugees looted some people, it was then  necessary for Hindu Sindhis to leave Sind their native land or fight back. We Sindhi are not fighters so slowly every one started to leave Sind, the land of their birth.
    They all left everything and brought clothes, cash and jewellery, that is the real story of  many Sindhis. They all came and found jobs all over India. They could not claim anything what they left in Sindh. After sometime few people got in Bombay some flats to live.
But by grace of God every Sindhi with their hard work got settled again not only all over India but all over the world. Today we Sindhis are all doing very well with God's Grace only we don't have our native land, we all miss that. "