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Flight: in the summer of 2001, a man's body fell out of the sky from a plane headed to London. Amitava Kumar searches for death of a transnational migrant. (Culture).(story of Mohammed Ayaz, a Pakistani stowaway who after sneaking onto a wheel of a British Airways plane while trying to escape to the UK)

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| June 22, 2002 | Kumar, Amitava | COPYRIGHT 2002 Color Lines Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The writer Rabindranath Tagore flew in a plane in 1932. He had awoken at three-thirty in the dark morning and was in the air at four. Tagore was traveling in what was then called Persia; at half-past eight the plane reached Bushire. "Now comes an age in which man has lifted the burdens of earth into the air," the writer noted in his travel diary. The achievement of flight did not always promise freedom for Tagore. On the contrary, he felt that the airplane was not in harmony with the wind. It roared like an animal in rage. A plane in flight suggested very strongly that human conflict had been raised from the level of the mundane world into the heavenly skies above.

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