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Leonor Fini and Leonora Carrington, 1952

El ojo traza en el techo blanco una pequeña raya negra. El techo asume la ilusión del ojo y se vuelve negro. La raya se borra entonces y el ojo se cierra.

Así nace la soledad.

In 1986, a 22-year-old flight attendant named Neerja Bhanot fended off a group of armed hijackers on Pan Am Flight 73 in Mumbai. When the attackers boarded the plane she quickly alerted the cockpit crew, who were able to escape through an overhead hatch. With them gone she was now the senior crew member on the plane and took charge of the situation. The hijackers were targeting Americans and killed one. When Bhanot was instructed to collect passports so that they could identity other Americans on board, she and the crew members hid them.

After 17 hours, the power began to fail and the hijackers, fearing a commando attack, began opening fire and setting off explosives. Bhanot opened one of the plane doors and could have been the first to escape but she instead started helping the passengers escape. One of the terrorists grabbed her by her hair and shot her point blank. She died while shielding three American children.