The year was 1947. India had won independence but the country was partitioned.
Partition saw many families migrating to India and an equal number of families moving to Pakistan. Suraj Sadan, an eight-year-old boy, was a part of one such family that walked from Pakistan to Delhi.
The life in the refugee camp had a bright lining, remembers the young boy, now a 69 year old man. "It was October. One day Mahatma Gandhi visited our camp. Even today, I remember him; he was like a bronze statue, shining. He sat on the floor and sang Easwar Allah tero naam, sabko sanmati de bhagwan with three girls. That was one of the most unforgettable moments in my life," Sadan says.
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