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It was around 8:30 or 9 in the evening on the last day of 1999. I was in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, and was visiting a fellow Bihari friend, Tabish Khair – now an established novelist and poet – to celebrate the New Year festivities. While waiting for others to get ready, I switched…
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It was around 8:30 or 9 in the evening on the last day of 1999. I was in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, and was visiting a fellow Bihari friend, Tabish Khair – now an established novelist and poet – to celebrate the New Year festivities. While waiting for others to get ready, I switched…
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Netflix series IC 814 The Kandahar Hijack: A poster of the web series. New Delhi: Netflix India has updated the opening disclaimer on its ‘IC-814 Kandahar Hijack” web series to include hijackers’ real and code names, Monika Shergill, the OTT giant’s Vice President (Content, India), said. “For the benefit of audiences unfamiliar with the 1999…
‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’, directed by Anubhav Sinha, was released on Netflix on August 29. New Delhi: Netflix’s latest web series, ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’, has sparked a controversy. The show, which is based on the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight by terrorists, has been accused of distorting facts, whitewashing terrorism,…
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