Zarrar Sehgal

Why Not Drop Cash by Helicopters?

My father, Ikram Sehgal, remembers US propeller driven C74 Globemasters landing every 30 minutes or so in 1954 in (then) Dhaka Airport (Tejgaon) bringing flood relief material to cope with the devastating floods than engulfing East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). The relief material, blankets, milk powder, butter oil, etc mostly got sold in the markets in…

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