The Importance of Celebrating the 9-11 Disaster

In 2022 80 years on a commemoration event was organized in Mumbai by relatives of those who died. The grandchildren and children of Arvin Jani are helping him pack for a special trip to India. He's taking part in a ceremony to remember what's known as the Indian Titanic. After the ship's sinking a 14 year old boy wrote a poem about losing his father in the disaster. At the ceremony in 2022 the British deputy high commissioner for western India Alan Gemmel read out that poem. They were speaking to me Ben Henderson for that episode of the Witness History podcast from the BBC World Service.