Chaudhri Harish Chandra: The era of an icon ends May 10, 2021, 1:26 PM IST
Chaudhri Harish Chandra was born in a well-known and reputed family of zamindars in Sikandrabad in Multan. The partition in 1947 which led to an exodus of millions from Pakistan to India, also affected the Chaudhri family who flew to Delhi in a plane which was chartered by Harish’s father Ch. Ram Chandra (Bar at Law) to bring to India his family and other families in distress. Harish, along with his brother and sister were received in Delhi by their uncle who was an ICS in the Rehabilitation Ministry. Another uncle helped them move to Kanpur and provided them shelter in his cantonment bungalow from where he started his life in India.