Each year, as January 24 approaches, my thoughts go back to a most tragic event that took place 57 years ago when Air India Flight 101 crashed at Mont Blanc in Europe, killing 117 passengers including the crew members. Among them was Dr Homi Bhabha, the founder and chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission and an outstanding nuclear physicist of India.
Another precious life lost in that crash was that of a young son of our friends Gen. Kulwant Singh and Teji. A few days prior to the crash, Gen. Kulwant Singh suddenly died of a massive heart attack. His young and only son, studying in London, came to India for his father’s last rites and was returning to London.
