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'When I saw the flag, I felt I was flying' - As India turns 70, Balbir Singh Sr recalls how the newly independent country won the hockey gold at the 1948 Olympics in London, helping to ease the pain of Partition.

"People asked me not to go to India. And I said why shouldn't I go, I have won three gold medals for my country. Nothing will happen to me there." Stuck at the New Delhi airport, a relative who served with the paramilitary forces picked him up in a military convoy. "They asked him to hide so people wouldn't see his turban. But he stood up and said, 'I wore a turban when I won the Olympics for India,'" says his daughter Sushbir.
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