
Louisiana pulmonary specialist Dr Jay Miller was on a once-in-a-lifetime family trip to India when US and Israel attacked Iran on February 28 and his plan to get back home went on a toss. Miller's Qatar Airways flight to Dallas made a U-turn about an hour after taking off from Doha. As he was back home after a four-continent gruelling travel that took 62 hours, he recounted his harrowing experience and his 'surreal calculus' plan to get back to home to the NYT.
The 45-year-old doctor left India a week earlier than his wife Swathi Narra and their five-year-old daughter Devi -- as he had patients waiting here. It was Devi's first trip to India where Narra's deceased father grew up.