Saklikar’s aunt and uncle were passengers on AirIndia Flight 182, which exploded off the Irish coast on June 23, 1985. She said at the poetry reading that she set out to write a series of lyric ...
In 1985, an AirIndia 747 flying from Montreal, Canada to Delhi was blown up in mid-flight by Khalistani extremists. All 331 passengers were killed, most were of Indian origin.