“With immediate effect, all (crew members) are required to announce ‘Jai Hind’ at the end of every announcement after a slight pause and with much fervour,” an Air India advisory said, aiming to capture the ‘Mood of the Nation’. As the debate on the need for such a directive rages on, Mint decodes the ‘hail the motherland’ salutation:
Who is behind the coinage of ‘Jai Hind’?
It was coined by Zainul Abedeen Hasan, better known as Abid Hasan. He grew up in Hyderabad. His mother being anti-British, Abid Hasan went to Germany for his engineering studies. Impressed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s speech, he expressed his desire to join the Indian National Army (INA) once his studies were over.
