there were casualties. then in east bengal 300 hindu villagers were ransacked and many people killed. and did your parents tried to protect you from what was going on, what did you understand of all of that and that anger at what was happening for such a young boy? what happened to me ijust realised that my father had a business in what is now west bengal. and there is one of the servants was entertaining some friends of my father. and they were talking, they were unfortunately hindu but they were our friends. and they were talking about kidnapping my mother because she was a beautiful woman. so the servant rushed to my mother and said, let‘s go to your brother ‘s house in calcutta because there is a problem. soi calcutta because there is a problem. so i remember with my mother hursley