The Great Indian Airport Challenge

Ha! The greatest trick the devil (read Govt) ever pulled was to make people (read Idiots) belive that it (read PSUs) did'nt exist. Now if you're wondering "Aint that the dialogue about Keyser Soze from The Usual Suspects?", you're bang on.

Reality Check :

1) India's Aviation Sector is booming.

2) Everything in India is booming except the Social Spending (something that actually reaches the poor people for whom the Govt needs to spend, people like us study by paying fees n earn after that . Lucky us)

3) PSUs are the only places where you can hear normal people say "Inquilab Zindabad". Other people being the actual Commie Party hippies and the Cast of Rang De Basanti.

4) Airports Authority of India has no authority in the running of Airports. They're a product of the "Yes Sir" generation of institutions from the Nehru-Era-Socialism.

5) Almost all Airports in India don't measure up to International Standards. Not our fault.We must follow the Indian Standards, i.e, have stinking toilets, walls with spit-marks, anywhere-spread-your-bed-n-sleep facility, chai n kaapi waalas, regional TV on the display screen plus a whole lot of other stuff. This is one effect of Globalisation. Makes us loose our uniqueness. I can't stop the USisation of the world. Nor can you.

6) Privatisation is an excuse for the Govt to wash its hands off a certain obligation. The Netas are too lazy to think of a solution. So let the private sector clean up the mess by paying for something n making it up in "tolls" or "tarriffs".

7) Politicians are waaaayyy smarter than you or me. They know how to extract every penny out of us by taxes, so they can please the aaam-junta by keeping oil prices low, consequentially hold on to the vote bank. We will never say no to taxes, but we'll "loose control" if petrol prices go up.

8) More jobs are going to be created by the privatisation of airports. But who will be the final winnner? We think its the people, but naahh. Its the goverment. They get to keep 45% of the revenue generated by these airports. So they unload a mess, ask someone else to clean it up, and the profits those other guys get after cleaning it up will be shared with the Govt. Damn smart.

So Mumbai and Delhi been ticked off. No, these airports didn't witness any interruption in flight services. But the people on TV did say that the "toilets stink badly". And Kolkata was raging with Commie Protests. Its not even on the list to be privatised in the near future. Strange. But funny.

Which brings me back to "interesting" part about this whole fiasco. Politics and red-tapism dont go hand-in-hand. They go hand-in-pocket. And thus, the boom in the aviation sector was aided by some clever businessmen-posing-as-ministers.

Long live Politics. Long live aam-junta. Long live the Communists, for without them there would be no "fun"in politics. Long live TV channels who give us entertaining one liners like "toilets stink badly". Long live the spirit of reforms in India. Did I say spirit? I meant sprint. We gonna reach 'International standards' by 20xx. Way to go. Woo hoo..

P.S I did watch Rang De Basanti. And No, I'm not reviewing it. Some 3,450 bloggers aldready did. Again, No, it didnt awaken me. Funny story though. Shows how confused today's generation is.