Tags / 1947 Partition of India
Ms. Padma Chandwaney (Masala Chat Project)
Padma Chandwaney, 73, is a proud Sindhi community leader, one of the first Indian Americans in Chicago, and an insurance professional. The interview includes discussion of how she had to raise her younger siblings at...
Mr. Santimoy Banerjee (At Risk Stories)
Santimoy Banerjee, 80, is a philanthropist and retired biochemist. The interview includes discussion of his training in the 1960s in the growing field of biochemistry at the University of Calcutta Bose Institute and at Harvard...
Ms. Prem Sharma (At Risk Stories)
Prem Sharma, 77, is a pioneer member of Chicago’s Indian American community, the founder of Apna Ghar, a domestic violence support service for immigrant women, and has played a leading role in the Indian women’s community since the late 1970s. The interview includes discussion of...
Dr. Upendranath Nimmagadda (At Risk Stories)
Upendranath Nimmagadda, 79, is a retired surgeon and active administrator of a medical school he co-founded in his home state in India. The interview includes discussion of his early life during which his father died and his family was supported by the local village, his...
Pandit Anil Joshi (Broadening Narratives)
Pandit Anil Joshi, 64, born in New Delhi, is a Hindu priest, teacher, and religious speaker who traces his lineage to a hereditary family of royal priests displaced from what is now Pakistan after Partition. The interview includes discussion of the title “Joshi” as an...
Ms. Mohinder Bedi (Broadening Narratives)
Mohinder Kaur Bedi, 84, is a joyful retired Hindi/Punjabi teacher and former principal who lives with her son in Naperville, Illinois. In addition to lots of laughter, the interview includes discussion of her birth in Sargodha (now in Pakistan), Partition-era childhood in an Indian Army...