Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Exemption:

This is a lovely board I found in one of the Indian Airports last year. But not sure why Dalai Lama and Robert Vadra have to fall into exceptional exemptions? Any rationale or good ole fancy?

3 comments:

Dev said...

Interesting pic... I remember reading a news report that the three service chiefs (Army, Navy and Air Force) have also been exempted from such checks.... I wonder how they must have felt while being frisked in their own country... I am sure that the list may well become so long that almost every government servant and politician will get exemption...
p.s. You are lucky they didn't arrest you for photographing a 'sensitive' article of national importance...

Sunil said...

Hmm. Yeah i learnt the service chiefs are exempted which is, well, basics.

But any idea about Robert vadra and Dalai Lama being exempted? Why then not the pope, Hindu Mutt acharyas, arch bishop of canterbury etc?
And why Vadra?

Anyways, after much much thought I remember this was Port Blair airport, which is Air force property ;)
Lucky Indeed.

Dev said...

I was thinking about the Dalai Lama's exemption and I think the reson could be that he is perhaps the only non-Indian residing in India who has the status of a head of state... as far as Robert Vadra is concerned, ahem! he is after all the Jamaai Raja (son-in-law) of the nation.... as he is an SPG protectee he falls under category 22 of the list in yr photograph along with Messrs. Vajpayee, Gujral, Gowda. So why a separate category for him? Maybe someone is trying to get into the good books of 10 Janpath... [I must stop now. Enough of this sacrilege!!! :-)))]