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Sohal Lal Sharma legendary of Fazilka, Punjab
Sohal Lal Sharma Journey starts from 02 Aug, 1932 upto 27 Oct, 2012.from Pakistan to India. It’s a life starting from Pakpattan (Pakistan) end to Fazilka (India). He was a great writer, great speaker and retired Block Officer. Sohal Lal Sharma was born in Pakpattan (Pakistan) in small teacher family. His father Mathuradas Sharma was a teacher and a well known pehalwan (Body Builder) in Pakpattan. He had a big family of 5 brothers and 5 sisters. He was the eldest son of the family and very responsible for doing all type of work. Got married to Sudesh Sharma. Because of him only we all family members are together. Early life Born in Pakistan small town call Pakpattan. He had done all his schooling from govt. school in Pakpattan (Pakistan). He was a brilliant student. He was always the topper of the school. When time had come to leave Pakpattan (Pakistan). Hindustan got divided into two major countries India and Pakistan. It was a very awful day when everyone started killing each other in 1947. News came that all Hindus families had to leave Pakistan going to India. Our family first did not agree to go away from Pakpattan (Pakistan) where they were born and brought up. Then every thing shattered. People started burning the houses. Even during night some people threw burning fuel bottles into the house for evacuation. Day had come when whole family had decided to move from Pakistan with few clothes, some money and food for India. Whole family moved together.It was a very sad moment when everyone left the home. First they went to the railway station where they found that the train was crammed. Everyone was sitting on the roof. Whole family did not get chance to step up in the train. Suddenly some people came there with swords and started killing people. Stampede had started. All started running here and there. Successfully whole family came out from station and met each other. No options were left now except to walk and cross the border but that border was at a distance of 61 kilometres. So everybody started to move to India. But journey was too far to cross the border. Everyone wanted to save their lives. After few Kms they met with a group of people who also joined. There were lot of rest camps in between. After whole day journey they felt very tired in night. They found suitable camp and stayed there at night. Lot of people were helping each other. Everybody was distributing food to each other. Everyone was exhausted but nobody was sleeping because of fear of attack. Even after early morning start not even half of the journey had been covered. Border was still very far. It seemed it will take 2 more days to cross the border. On the journey of the second day during evening one of the cousin was not feeling well. He got high fever. He said that he did not want to move ahead. Everyone was very disheartened. They tried to carry cousin but it was very difficult. His health was not allowing to let him move. He told the whole family to move ahead and he did not want to move. He sat there on the side of the way. Weather was also not good and within few minutes rain had started. God didn’t want to let him go with family. They all took shelter under the roof of one old house. After rain had stopped, everyone planned to started again but cousin told them to stay there. It was a very hard decision to leave him alone but it was time to save the whole family. Everyone started again without cousin with tears in their eyes. In the second night they stayed near the road but no one slept because of cousin. Crying sound of the people reached the other side of the road so some hostile groups tried to attack them. The shouting sounds made by the hostile groups were coming from nearby area so everyone started running. Whole night the family kept moving without staying anywhere. Morning everyone reached a small town called Haveli. It was the last town from border. In the evening every one crossed the border to come to Indian Territory. All family members stopped there in a village on the way to Fazilka. After crossing Indian villages, the family reached a small town called Fazilka. They came to know everyone was taking shelter in any house, so they also searched one house. They broke open the lock and settled there. Intuition’s After some days whole family was settled. Every one in the family started working to earn for living. People used to give wheat rice for price of work. Maximum refugee families lived their life this way. One night Sohan lal Sharma had a dream about something present in the house. He told this to his father that some thing was there in the house according to his intuition. But Mathuradas(Sohan Lal Sharma father) did not bother about his intuition. After 2 days Sohal Lal told his father that we should check the floor of verandah (Lobby).In those days floors were made of mud and cow dung. Mathuradas was saying if we broke this floor we did not have money to rebuild it. After agreed that it was myth. He understood that he would not take Hit & Trial on intuition. After two days suddenly police came in the morning to the house with some Muslims family. They said that it was their house so our family was shocked now where would our family go now. Our family had started thinking that everything had been settled between India and Pakistan. But suddenly one of the Muslim guys said that something had been stored in the house and they wanted to take it. Then all the people accompanied by police moved to the verandah (Lobby). Our family was thinking why they came with police.May be had left behind some precious thing in this house. They started digging on the corner of the verandah (Lobby).Our whole family had gathered around the verandah (Lobby ) to see. After digging a little bit we found that there were stairs going down to the basement. One of the Muslim guys climbed down the stairs and came up with two big pots. They were full of gold and silver. Our whole family was shocked and were looking at each other.Our family came to know then why the police had come with them. They thanked my family for keeping their things safe but our family was thinking that why they did not listen Sohal Lal Sharma. Our Family left everything in Pakpattan (Pakistan).Even they had to make lot of efforts for living. Now everything had gone and even the floor was broken. God wanted that our family should start everything from a  scratch. Now each of our family members made their mind that they had to make much better efforts to live a good quality life. Mathuradas (Sohal Lal Sharma father) saved Us. Mathuradas was very brave and pehalwan (Body Builder). Mathuradas used to have everyday 9-10Litres of Milk, 1 Litre of Dessi Ghee (Fresh Vegetable Oil) and healthy diet everyday. Mathuradas had 56 inch chest and he was doing more than 500 sit-ups everyday. He always won the sports for throwing the iron ball of 15Kg-20Kg to the sky like shot put we are doing now. He asked me and my brother to sit on back for push ups. Every weekend he gave his khunta (wooden rod) for hitting him hard on biceps and thighs. It was old type of exercises. Old People used to carry Khunta (Wooden Rod) with them. One day our family were going to Multan (Pakistan) on some function. They hired a horse cart for 1 anna (Currency). When they reached ,the horse cart driver asked for ½ anna more (Currency). He was along Pathan (Commuinity in Muslims) man with beard. It was the area where all the Pathans used to live. He started quarrelling with Mathuradas. Mathuradas did not see any where and slapped the Pathan on his face. It was a bursting sound. Everybody got shocked. Everybody had thought that our family was going to be beaten by Pathans. It is not like today’s theory Mar ke Bhag Jao or Khake so Jao…(Hit Someone and run if we beaten by some one then go home and sleep). When the cart driver called other Pathans then Mathuradas got down from cart and took out his Khunta (Wooden Rod) he used to carry with him. All the Pathans got scared of him and did not touch our family. Our family was saved because of Brave Mathuradas… Career and Achivements Block Officer - Worked as Block Officer in Primary Govt schools of Punjab Fazilka. Writer - Writer of Shares (phrases) and Poems. Speaker - Excellent speaker as well. Pension Union - Retired pension union head of Fazilka. Park Committee - Known member of Fazilka Park Committee.