Shock of Air India took years to heal: families
It took 20 years – and a narrow escape from yet another potential tragedy – for Jayashree Thampi to come to terms with the Air India bombing.
Thampi, who lost her husband Lakshmanan and seven-year-old daughter Preethi in the 1985 terrorist attack, recounted Tuesday how the enormity of it all overwhelmed her at the time.
I closed my mind to the crash, I concentrated on my work at the Bank of Montreal, she told a public inquiry. I pretended it did not happen to me. In all those years I never cried for my daughter.
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