‘Couldn’t come home to care for my baby’: S. Jaishankar recounts IC814 horror, says father on same flight

Similar to what his profession demands, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said how he had a unique perspective of both sides while handling the 1999 Kandahar hijack. The minister revealed that his father K. Subrahmanyam was also on the same flight. The External Affairs Minister was addressing a community event in Geneva about the recently released television series on the hijacking of IC-814 in 1999. Jaishankar's interesting response came while responding to a question about the series, which had portrayed the bureaucracy and the government in “poor light”, according to the questioner.