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My Father Was My Superhero: 26/11 Braveheart Hemant Karkare’s Daughter Pens Memoir

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News and Views
Episode • Nov 25, 2019 • 7m
Hemant Karkare was eating dinner with his family on the night of 26 November 2008 when Pakistani-based Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists orchestrated 12 attacks in Mumbai that would last for four days.
Being the Joint Commissioner of Police and the chief of the Mumbai’s Anti-Terrorist Squad Karkare left the dinner only to be killed in action outside Cama hospital.
Eleven years since Jui Karkare lost her father Hemant Karkare to the 26/11 attacks, she is releasing a book 'Hemant Karkare — A Daughter’s Memoir'. Jui who is the eldest amongst her three siblings spoke to The Quint about her book and her father. 
Editor and VO: Shorbori Purkayastha
Reporter: Ankita Sinha
Producer: Shelly Walia

Music: Big Bang Fuzz

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