In a sari, she earned her wings
Sarla Thukral (August 8, 1914-March 15, 2008)
Updated At : 07:20 AM Aug 08, 2025 IST
It was extraordinary… people from different states began to claim me as one of their own.'' Those are the words of Sarla Thukral, who, on an unassuming afternoon in 1936, decided to pair her plain cotton sari with a flight helmet. She sat in the cockpit of a de Havilland DH.60 Moth, and the rest, as they say, is history.
