Sell Air India and move forward

Three things that remind me depressingly of the socialist times in which I grew up. The Ambassador car, the Ashoka hotels and Air India. Whenever I encounter these symbols of that dreary old India, I remember the tawdriness of those times. Images come back of surly Indian Airlines hostesses dumping cardboard boxes of stale food in front of me. Memories revive of that smell of lavatories that was ever redolent in the atmosphere of our state controlled airlines and government hotels. As for the Ambassador car, what memories it brings.

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