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Once Neerja was back home in Mumbai after the flight of her married life plunged into the ground, she received a letter asking her as to what she was. This was something she could not take and straight away applied for a flight attendant’s job in Pan American Airlines when it decided to have an all Indian cabin crew for its Frankfurt-India flight.
Neerja Bhanot was born on September 7, 1963 in Chandigarh, India into a Punjabi Hindu Brahmin family of the Bhanot clan. She was the daughter of Harish Bhanot, a Bombay-based journalist, and Rama Bhanot. She had two brothers, Akhil and Aneesh Bhanot.
Sep 4, 2018 · Following the arranged marriage in March 1985, Neerja went to the Gulf (Sharjah) to join her husband and set up a happy home. But the marriage went sour within two months. She was starved off finance and food in a foreign land and the bright girl lost five kilograms of weight in two months.
Sep 3, 2018 · Within days of tying the knot, Neerja was braving a range of taunts. Her husband would tell her to stop eating if she could not cook, quit modelling to keep the marriage, mind her manners and be...
Sep 3, 2018 · Neerja Bhanot had got married in March 1985 and in two months she was back in Bombay where her father was then posted. To her parents’ shock, she had faced starvation in her matrimonial home...
Sep 5, 2017 · After moving to Sharjah with her husband, Neerja was subjected to mental and physical abuse, all in the name of dowry. "She was starved off finance and food in a foreign land and the bright girl lost five kg of weight in two months.
Feb 21, 2016 · Before she stood up to a gang of hijackers on a Pan American World Airways flight, Neerja Bhanot’s major act of courage was to walk out of her marriage. It was 1986. She was a 21-year-old in Bombay, a striking young woman with a modelling career that was just taking off.
Oct 16, 2023 · An unfortunate arranged marriage. At 21, Neerja Bhanot was arranged to marry a man by her father. However, the marriage quickly fell apart due to issues related to the dowry, a system that continues to plague Indian women today. After losing 5 kg from the stress, Neerja returned to her family home.
City’s Neerja Bhanot, who died saving lives aboard a hijacked Pan Am flight in 1986 and now has become the subject of a critically acclaimed biopic, was the answer to her father’s long prayers...
Sep 7, 2022 · Neerja Bhanot 59th birth anniversary: Starting her career as a model to sacrificing her life and saving the lives of over 300 passengers onboard, here’s a look at lesser-known facts about...
