Smelly Indian Airports?
Aug. 3rd, 2007 07:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mcgillianaireJeff Randall at The Telegraph has laid into the BAA (British Airports Authority), but not before describing:
"BAA's outlets are neither as smelly as airports in India, where the odour of urine is a defining feature, nor as dangerous as Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea, where there was a gang shoot-out in the terminal."
I have been to a half-dozen airports in India and this has never been a defining feature in my experience, nor has it been a defining feature in the experiences of others who have traveled extensively across India by air. Moreover, airport shoot-outs are not limited to "Third World hell-holes." I don't know who this Randall guy is, but I've been reading the Telegraph regularly since arriving here, and this is just the latest example of racial stereotyping claimed as fact. It worries me that The Telegraph is the most popular British broadsheet when I read stuff like this. Thankfully, the Tories are not in power, otherwise I shudder to think the kind of rubbish its mainstream media mouthpiece would dare to dish out. To their credit however, they have a comment option open to public response, and through it, one can read the views of those who enjoy reading The Telegraph, but also don't support the nonsense it sometimes emits.
As it happens, I agree with Randall's thoughts on the BAA's inefficiencies and his solutions.
I have been to a half-dozen airports in India and this has never been a defining feature in my experience, nor has it been a defining feature in the experiences of others who have traveled extensively across India by air. Moreover, airport shoot-outs are not limited to "Third World hell-holes." I don't know who this Randall guy is, but I've been reading the Telegraph regularly since arriving here, and this is just the latest example of racial stereotyping claimed as fact. It worries me that The Telegraph is the most popular British broadsheet when I read stuff like this. Thankfully, the Tories are not in power, otherwise I shudder to think the kind of rubbish its mainstream media mouthpiece would dare to dish out. To their credit however, they have a comment option open to public response, and through it, one can read the views of those who enjoy reading The Telegraph, but also don't support the nonsense it sometimes emits.
As it happens, I agree with Randall's thoughts on the BAA's inefficiencies and his solutions.
