India, March 4 -- For Madhuri Dwiwedi, who managed to escape the unrest in Dubai through Oman's capital Muscatto reach Delhi, the past 72 hours have been so chaotic that she forgot to inform her daughters' teachers that they would not be able to attend online classes on Tuesday.

"On Sunday, I received a message from my daughters' school that classes would be online on March 2 and 3, and would continue unless tensions in the Gulf improved. We reached Muscat yesterday, so my daughters attended their classes. As we were uncertain about our travel plans to India and only secured tickets this morning, I completely forgot to inform their teachers," said Dwiwedi, who returned to India along with her husband and two daughters, both below the age...