India, Aug. 17 -- At a time when its privatisation and strategic disinvestment only highlight the morass our national carrier has crashed into, Air India has done the country proud by conquering an uncharted path. On Independence Day, it became the first Indian airline to fly over the North Pole, making the world look much smaller than before and in climate-challenged times, minimising carbon footprints and cutting costs on aviation fuel. An Air India flight first flew over the North Pole 13 years ago when Captain Amitabh Singh took an unconventional flight path after taking the delivery of a brand new aircraft and bringing it back from Seattle to New Delhi. The difference this time round was that AI 123 from Delhi to San Francisco had 24...