Gulf War

“I saw the world from a more empathetic lens and decided to do something for homeless people. Since cooking was my forte, I started distributing free meals over weekends,” he says.

On October 15, 1932, one of India's most eminent visionaries flew from Karachi to Bombay in a De Havilland Puss Moth aircraft. It was the day India's civil aviation industry was born.

The granddaughter of Sunny Mathews, one of the brave and inspiring people who helped in the evacuation of over 1,70,000 Indians from Kuwait during the gulf war, wrote an emotional post about her grandad on Facebook. She shared it a day before the release of the movie Airlift that is based on the actions of such unsung heroes.

When thousands of Indians were stuck in Kuwait during Gulf war, the Indian government executed the world's largest air evacuation mission ever. The operation continued for almost two months and managed to airlift over 1,70,000 Indians. Here is all you need to know about the amazing effort!