2-3 miles in the middle of the night to a refugee shelter set up in a college. From there, all refugees were transported by military trucks to the new Indian Territory.

They reached India and home became a small tent in a refugee camp in New Delhi. From a privileged life, they had to struggle for as much as a square meal, apart from the intense struggle for basic amenities and eventually a livelihood. Within six months, young Indar was sent away with his Vetenerarian doctor uncle to a small village in Punjab to continue with his studies. In his absence, his bed stricken mother passed away creating a large vacuum in his heart. Two years later, his father remarried and Indar was blessed with three additional brothers and one sister. But for young Indar, this was not enough – always one with stars in his eyes, he completed his graduation from DAV College, Ambala City, and worked hard to secure admission to the Bachelor of Engineering program at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California. He eventually went on to do MS (Computer Science) from UCLA.

In 1961, at the inspiration and intimidation of his close friends, Indar K Sethi was off to chase his American dream at the young age of 21.