Sunita Ram Binwani's story
Sunita Ram Binwani (maiden name Mohini Balani) was born on 2th June 1941 in Hyderabad, Sindh, British India. The youngest child in a family of five siblings, Sunita's family moved to Madras (Chennai), India following Partition. Today, Sunita calls Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia home and this is her story. Sunita and her husband, Ram Sunita recounts living a good and comfortable life in Hyderabad, Sindh pre-Partition. She was used to being surrounded by a big family . Her immediate family – her parents Gopaldas and Sati Balani, together with her three older brothers and one sister, who was the eldest – lived in a large joint family with their grandparents, three chachas (uncles), chachis (aunts) and cousins. The family always had a smooth and friendly relationship with their neighbours. Sunita studied in a Sindhi all girls’ kindergarten for one year while her brothers and sister studied in an all boys’ and all girls’ school respectively. At the time of Partition, Sunita w...