Eighty four-year old Bhagwani Taneja (she guesses that she was born in 1928) recalls the time when her entire community packed up their homes from Dera Ismail Khan, in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province, and moved to Delhi during the Partition.

As she faces the camera, Bhagwani talks about the tough time she and others from Dera faced while trying to build homes and new lives in a divided nation. The community took their protest to the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s bungalow who greeted them warmly and lent his garden for them to stay a few nights.