Thiruvananthapuram

For a few hours on a warm April day, jets paused and silence reclaimed the skies above the international airport in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of the southern Indian state of Kerala.

The procession passing through the airport is a reminder of how "heritage and modernity co-exist here, every year", Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor wrote on X after last week's procession.

The Thiruvananthapuram International Airport is one of the few airports in the world that closes down for a religious event.

The 100 Indians who were deported from the US last month after being accused of entering the country illegally had also been lured by the hope of a better life, pointed out Irudaya Rajan, who chairs the International Institute of Migration and Development in Thiruvananthapuram.

On Monday, Shashi Tharoor, the member of parliament representing Perera's constituency Thiruvananthapuram, said that members of the Indian embassy in Jordan had verified the victim's identity and that the process of transportation of the body had begun.