The latest round of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians erupted on October 7, 2023, on the second day of Yom Kippur, the Jewish period of atonement and prayer. About 4,000 km away, the violence triggered a surge of memories in the residence of the Jha family in the capital’s Golf Links neighbourhood; half a century ago, their lives had been permanently changed by the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which had pitted Israel against a coalition of Arab States led by Syria and Egypt.
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The 1973 war had not yet broken out when Usha Chettur, the prominent Odissi exponent and wife of upcoming journalist Prem Shankar Jha, decided to travel to Syria. Chettur hailed from Kerala and had married Mr. Jha five years earlier. The two made a notable couple, successfully navigating the cultural scene of New Delhi in the late 1960s and the early 1970s.
