Indian journey
What Mr. Sehgal wrote in his Indian Journey was not any extra information for me but I was very impressed by the news that says, "An elderly gentleman along with uniformed ADC went through the security checks and boarded the bus to the parked aircraft with us. Surprise, Surprise. Next day we discovered when he came to address us at the South Asia Editor's Forum (SAEF) meeting at the Sheraton, Hyderabad, that he was Balram Jaikad, the Governor of Madhya Pradesh".
I had a similar experience in 1996 when I was flying from Chennai to Delhi and found a Lt. General of the Indian army was standing behind me for the security check-up. During my recent trip from Dhaka-Saidpur-Dhaka and while I was waiting in the departure lounge I found to my utter surprise that not only a few ministers but some other officials were also being shuttled by cars with flags to the tiny aircrafts that were flying to different destinations. I also found that the front seats of the 25 or so years old aircraft in which I was flying were already reserved and same sorts of people were shuttled by cars to the aircraft in the similar way.
Cannot the Bangladeshi big shots learn something from the Indians?
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