M Pallonji

Dhansak and the hijack

Can anybody be sick of dhansak? In her column Inside Track (The Sunday Indian Express, September 22, 2024) Coomi Kapoor wrote that the then external affairs minister Jaswant Singh complained to a friend that he was "thoroughly sick of dhansak,” following the hijack drama of 1999. A limited series on the OTT (Over The Top) platform titled IC814: The Kandahar Hijack, about the December 24, 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines airplane by the Taliban, "has sparked fresh recollections of the chilling” incident. The aircraft, carrying 190 persons on board, had taken off from Kathmandu and was headed for Delhi when......



To read the entire article, you must be a Parsiana subscriber.

Already Subscribed? Sign in

Subscribe now to get Full Access

SUBSCRIBE


 

Godrej Consumer Products