Driving through the Countrysides of the UK – A Travelogue

  Driving through the Countrysides of the UK – A Travelogue Tathagata Anuradha Mukhopadhyay 5 April 2024 We boarded an Indigo Airlines flight to London via Istanbul. Three things worth mentioning: First, for the first time in my life I took a six-and-a-half-hour long international flight where they served only one veg meal and in-flight entertainment was unavailable. I won’t feel any compunction should Indigo's International Flight licence be cancelled, simply because any foreigners travelling with this airline would think that India is a country of paupers. Second, the walk and the security check-in in Istanbul is an ordeal. A Turk bully-of-a-man started asking me why I was travelling to the UK. Since when did the Govt of the UK appoint these Turk mofos as their custodian of security? Or did he do this because I was holding an Indian passport? The bastards are pro-Pakistani and India's diplomatic relationship with Turkey is now at an all-time low (even after accepting In...