On a nippy March morning in Delhi, 45-year-old Mehtab Jahan sits in a blue salwar kameez, a shawl wrapped around her to head on a pavement in Delhi outside the offices of the Shipping Ministry. Like nearly 10 others around her, she is here to ask the government for help in securing the release of 17 Indians on board the MT Royal Grace, a Nigeria-owned tanker that was taken hostage a year ago by pirates off the coast of Somalia.
