The background of all those who perished in Saturday’s air crash in Mangalore is still unclear. But among those killed are a staffer of the Dubai newspaper, Gulf News, and her husband and their daughter who was probably headed for a career in journalism.
Manirekha Poonja worked in the finance department of the newspaper, and her family was on a short visit to Mangalore for a wedding. None of the three survived, according to a report on the paper’s website.
Manirekha’s daughter, Harshini Poonja, was a student of media and communication. Harshini tweeted before she boarded the illfated Dubai-Mangalore plane last night.
The profile on her blog, last updated yesterday, reads:
“I am not done becoming me yet.“
Her location on Twitter reads, “Infinite Universe”.
Harsh was a student of Applied Multimedia. That’s the correct name of the degree. Her relatives never knew much about her. They don’t even know enough to identify her body.