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OVER-NIGHT REFUGEES
MIRA KAMDAR RECALLS HOW HER GREAT-GRANDFATHER FLED FROM BURMA
very family has its own archive of dramatic tales from World War II. These stories are from ours. They are thing stories of an exodus from a promised land, and none is more painfully difficult to imagine than that of Motiba's father,
apartments, business offices and storefronts all over Burma, from Akyab, where they had started out to Rangoon, where they'd shifted their headquarters to outlets in many outlying areas. It couldn't have been easy to leave all this to the kind mercies of the Japanese and the desperation of the. Burmese and Indians left behind.
bebek gotes Mached mig Muljibhai's harrowing journey out of Burma by foot. Perhaps because the Kharas' business interests in Burma were so substantial by 1942, Muljibhai Khara was the last family member to leave. By this time, he and his two brothers owned villas,
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Muljibhai Khara left Rangoon in April 1942 on a boat to Mandalay, travelling up the Irrawaddy River. The boat was packed with refugees fleeing the capital and rode
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