With Indians now accounting for more than 12 percent of the global seafaring workforce, they are present on ships operating on virtually every major international route.
Many of them sobbed. Expressions of grief for the death of Imam Hussein are traditional during Ashoura, but many of the mourners were also grieving more personal losses.
The Islamabad understanding was not the result of pressure and coercion, but rather the result of the resistance and authority of the brave Iranian nation, says Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.
As the conflict between the United States and Iran spills into vital shipping lanes, Indian seafarers are increasingly finding themselves on the frontlines of a war that is not their own.
