the beach, the camel ride, the trip to karachi with my mother.eturning to a country that she had fled 70 years ago as a refugee. did you ever think you'd be doing this? >> i was not planning on this. >> it's going to be a journey of surprises i think. >> yes. ♪ >> what are you thinking right now? >> it's amazing i can't believe it. i can't believe it. >> you never thought you'd come back here? >> never. never. yep. now i'm back with my son after 67 years. >> right. i'm not 67 just to be clear. >> no, i'm back. i'm back after 67 years. in between then other things happened because i was only 5, you cannot be 67. >> right. i tell people that my mom is a refugee when she was a young person. >> i'm still a refugee. i never got the status back. >> my mom was a survivor of one of the bloodiest partitions in our world's history, the religious wars between hindus and muslims in india and pakistan. you left everything you owned. >> everything we owned just because we did not know how long and when we are going we did not know that also. i tell you one goo

on, i still got to do one of the most amazing things on this trip, take a stroll with my mom on karachi beach you left your homeland into these waters and then never came back. >> never came back until today. >> 67 years. >> i look at this kind of water on the ocean and i think it's beautiful and i want to grab my surfboard. and i want to go out there and surf. you look at that water and you see what? >> i see this water took me from this land. >> took you away? >> took me away from my home. >> and these are the very steps that my mom and her parents and her grandparents stepped down before getting on a cargo ship bound for bam bay. these were awful times and the partition of india was in full swing. when i think about getting in a cargo ship at age a, very uncomfortable, not knowing where i'm going, not knowing if i'm going to be safe, having just left everything that i owned in the world behind, i think i would be sick to my stomach. i mean it would make me -- >> sure, but i have a very brave mother. my mother, she reminded me every day, we lost everything. but we have our courage. and we'r

the beach, the camel ride, the trip to karachi with my mother. fled 70 years ago as a refugee. did you ever think you'd be doing this? >> i was not planning on this. >> it's going to be a journey of surprises i think. >> yes. ♪