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Radio Kent,3 mins

Leaving loved ones behind: Gurvinder and Tarsem

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Tarsem was just 20 when he boarded an Air India flight in 1962, leaving his family and new wife behind in Mahilgaila. Tarsem tells his friend Gurvinder the reasons for coming to England and why he never saw his father or grandfather again.

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