My salute to the Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar for his extraordinary bravery.
Despite being stabbed and seriously injured, he fought back, resisted, opened the cockpit door, and enabled passengers and crew to overpower the attacker — preventing a catastrophic mid-air disaster.
He saved the lives of 174 people, including Israeli citizens and other nationals.
I wish Captain Machchhar a speedy and full recovery.
He is a true hero.
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2010, New Delhi, I was driving home late one night around 1 AM after a family gathering.
I stopped at a red traffic light in Green Park. There were no other vehicles around, just our car.
Suddenly, a BMW pulled up behind us and started honking aggressively, demanding that we drive through the red light.
I pointed to the signal and stayed put.
The driver got out, dressed in a suit, hurled abuses at me, and ordered me to move. When I refused, and picked up my phone, he banged on my window. Eventually he backed off, got back in his car, and sped away by cutting across in front of me. I drove off when the signal turned green.
This is the reality of India, even today: owning a big car, a big house, or having formal education is no guarantee of basic civility, class, or moral character.
This was just one of many road rage incidents in New Delhi/NCR, I experienced before I finally decided to pack my bags and leave the country.
A truly civilized society is one where people follow the law even when no one is watching, and do what is right without needing supervision.
When I moved to Singapore, this is exactly what I saw, people naturally did the right thing. The same held true when I later moved to Europe.
Regarding the recent dancing incident at the airport, many people defended it by saying, “The authorities didn’t have a problem, so why do you?” That’s exactly where they miss the point.
You never know who is sitting on the same flight, someone mourning the loss of a loved one, a person who just received a cancer diagnosis, a parent who lost a child, or someone who just lost their job. When you show such insensitivity in shared public spaces and don’t care about other people’s emotional state, that’s where a society fails.
People often abuse me for raising these issues and quickly brush them aside by saying, “Every country has problems.”
That’s true, every country does have its issues.
But the scale is vastly different. Other countries have 99% civility and 1% assholes. In India, it feels like 99% assholes and 1% civility.
Yes, I agree that no country is perfect, but the proportions make all the difference.
To those who defend such behavior and treat every public place like their personal living room: fuck off.