
In 1933, my grandfather left Mumbai to take up his first job as a teacher in a Marathi school in Karachi. In those days, the two cities were part of the then-Bombay Presidency under British rule. In 2010, I flew from Mumbai to Karachi and will never forget the expression of the taxi driver when he asked me which airline I was flying. When I responded “Pakistan International Airlines,” his reaction was as if I had just turned into an...


