Saif Ali Khan visits Aman Setu in Uri, the bridge over the Jhelum that once enabled movement between the two sides of the Line of Control. Built by the Indian Army's engineers in 2005, the bridge today stands as a striking reminder of the divided landscape, with its two sides controlled by India and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
There are moments in life, individual and collective that stand the test of time. The event itself may well have been fleeting, but its impact leaves an impression that refuses to fade. But individual memory is fickle as is life that is finite. What is infinite, what is permanent in the longer scope of human time, is the recordings of communal memory. History after all is not time continuum, it is the painstaking documentation of events that really mattered. But memory is also retained, of moments that really matter, because at that particular slice of time...there was someone there to record it.
Twenty-seven years after the Kargil War, the story of the Indian Air Force's daring aerial campaign comes alive in Netflix's Operation Safed Sagar. NDTV speaks to Siddharth, Mihir Ahuja, Abe Varma, Arnav Bhasin and director Onir about portraying real-life Air Force heroes, the responsibility of wearing their uniforms, the camaraderie among the pilots and the painstaking research and technology behind the series. From Squadron Leader Ajay Ahuja to the pilots of the Kargil conflict, the cast reflects on the courage, sacrifice and brotherhood they discovered while bringing these extraordinary stories to screen.
Ten days after Air India flight AI2379 suffered a sudden loss of effective control before landing safely, five crucial questions remain. What caused all three hydraulic systems to fail almost simultaneously? Could a common failure have triggered the event? Did any cockpit action contribute? Why did the hydraulic systems recover within seconds-and are selective leaks about the pilot influencing the narrative before the facts are established? NDTV examines the key questions surrounding the Phuket-Delhi flight and the investigation into the terrifying four-second episode.
