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The pilot who called out swift but faulty action by airlines and a minister

The running joke on social media is that the now-famous Indigo's captain might be forced to jump ships, or airlines

Kunal Kamra
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Kunal Kamra

Nikita Puri
Who: It’s hard to keep tabs on all the developments in India but you have to have taken up residence in a cave in, say, Australia if you haven’t followed this story. And it’s an unedifying one: of the extraordinary pace at which four airlines — Indigo, Air India, SpiceJet and GoAir — banded to ban comedian Kunal Kamra after a video of him heckling infamous television anchor Arnab Goswami began trending on social media.  

This unleashed a tidal wave of memes with parody accounts of auto and bus driver federations lining up to announce they were banning Kamra too, for

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