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| Author - Sky High : The Untold Story of IndiGo | Featured by @TheEconomist | Award-winning journalist | Aviation & Defence editor at @EconomicTimes (Prime) |

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Super happy to share that my book #SkyHigh : The Untold Story of @IndiGo6e is getting global recognition. London-based @TheEconomist read it & has featured it in its latest edition that hits the stands today with potential US prez @KamalaHarris on its cover. 🎉🙂✍️📚🙌🙏
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Doctor KK Agarwal got himself vaccinated without his wife. Note to self : don't ever pick-up phone while you are live on tv :) #forwarded .
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Not sure when was this, as circulating on WhatsApp now, but an extremely graceful @pvsindhu1 during a temple visit. Wishing a 2024 @olympics gold 🥇👍 👏
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Tempers soaring even mid-air: "I am not your servant" An @IndiGo6E crew and a passenger on an Istanbul flight to Delhi (a route which is being expanded soon with bigger planes in alliance with @TurkishAirlines ) on 16th December :
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Eagle has landed. Rome evac of 263 stranded Indians. AI-1122 ✈ 👏👏👏.
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5 years
Can't believe how people are treating our airline crew. This @IndiGo6E crew is nearly broken from being discriminated & taunted. When she is gone for her flight, her mother is even refused groceries in her society. Police is also not helping. @amitshah #coronavirus #india .
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6 years
A pilot friend sent a better version. #WelcomeHomeAbhinandan . 👏
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Somethings never change. ✈.
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10 months
Understand this is Chennai airport today. The sea seems to have taken it over. And the most lowly paid staff in an airline typically are out braving it all. 👏👍 #ChennaiRains
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4 months
Woh, this looks real close. @IndiGo6E lands just when @AirIndia was taking-off at Mumbai Airport. @DGCAIndia @FAANews @CSMIA_Official @MoCA_GoI
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6 years
All women crew to fly twelve major non-stop @AirIndiain flights tomorrow including: Delhi-San Francisco Delhi-New York Delhi-Washington Delhi- Chicago Delhi-Sydney Delhi-Rome Delhi-London Delhi-Shanghai Delhi-Paris Mumbai-New York #WomensDay
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4 years
Amazing scenes. Baby born mid-air on @IndiGo6E Delhi - Bangalore flight today, helped by the airline's crew. 👏👏👍 Future IndiGo pilot perhaps. 😎 #aviation #avgeek #india
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5 years
Boarding for Israel, Tel Aviv ✈🤞
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5 years
Only fair to place on record @IndiGo6E Captain Rohit Mateti's version of the @kunalkamra88 / Arnab episode. Here goes his internal email :
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First flight ever : - Nanded - Hyderabad - 4th Oct, TruJet - On about Rs 1000 #Udan airfare. Must have been a joy to fly ✈
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Air India crew leaving Mumbai to evacuate India citizens from Wuhan, China. What will we do without @airindiain 's several evacuations over years. Be safe. 👏👏👏. #coronavirus
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4 years
Royal spot
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2 years
Some more videos have been shared of @qatarairways interviews at Mumbai @Hilton today. These videos say everything : #aviation #jobs #india
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Wow look who is talking. Air India was profit making till it was forced with 111 planes it didnt ask for, loaded with debt, then merged leading to internal infighting while pvt airlines soared. 👏👏👏
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How much longer will the govt. fund a loss making airline with taxpayers' money knowing its accumulated losses are increasing every year? Does the BJP govt. have a plan for Air India?
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IndiGo pilot Pradeep Krishnan touched his mother's and grandmother's feet before he flew them to Singapore on their maiden flight. #quite #cool
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4 years
Whoever shot.. 👍 #Mumbai
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5 years
August auto sales drop in per cent : - Maruti Suzuki 33% - Hyundai 9.54% - Honda 51% - Tata Motors 58% - Toyota 21% - Eicher-Volvo 41.7% - Mahindra & Mahindra 25% - Mahindra Tractors 17%. #india #auto #economy .
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5 years
Please give Air India cash before anyone else @nsitharaman . Hope its not made to grovel. Who will do such national service (except docs and nurses) if not the good crew and staff of AI 🙏. "Air India to mount Boeing 787 to Rome today to evacuate Indians stranded there." 👏👏.
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3 years
This is really the best one perhaps.
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5 years
And this is why one should be more proud of Air India crew. It's not easy at all. 👮‍♂️👮‍♀️😇👏👏. #coronavirus .
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This joke was only up to SpiceJet. People kept on adding and forwarding it : IndiGo: No pilots Jet Airways: No money SpiceJet: No planes Air India: No passengers Air Asia: No management Vistara: No slots Airports: No parking ATC: No time Pilots: No rest DGCA: No clue
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4 years
Air India Express pilot Akhilesh Kumar's body flown into Delhi on @IndiGo6E at 2 am. Hear pilot head Ashim Mittra had requested two dozen pilots, ops staff to be present at arrival. Nice gesture to pay last respects from one airline's pilots to the other. Thoughts & prayers 🙏🙏
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New : - Hear Tata Chairman N Chandra has just landed in Delhi. - To meet PM Modi @PMOIndia possibly afternoon. - All the paperwork - @AirIndiain board resigning and new Tata-led board taking over likely post 2 pm today itself.
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6 years
If the documents were stolen, govt should put its own house in order : Justice Kaul. #epic . #rafaledeal
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9 months
Another shot of @airindia crew in all new uniform with @Airbus A350 and the CEO. ✈️ 👍
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5 years
For context @bcci earns Rs 12000 crore a year.
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BCCI donates Rs 51 crore to Prime Minister's Relief Fund for disaster management in wake of COVID-19 pandemic
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4 years
Flying has never been as scary. Nice of @airindiain to give these face shields.
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5 years
The unforgettable Maurya Sheraton pasta cooking session of 2007. Almost everyone in the picture is in trouble now including Sunil Bharti Mittal. @economictimes pic. #a #decade #in #business .
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Just in : - Mumbai airport becomes first to remove boarding pass stamping for all domestic airlines operating out of Terminal 2. - Domestic passengers can now authenticate their boarding pass by scanning barcode on mobile phones at the e-gates. #good #news
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5 years
What a morbid 2018-19 for aviation (approx numbers): - IndiGo profit fell 93% to Rs 150 cr from Rs 2200 cr - SpiceJet became loss making with Rs 300 cr - Vistara on just a small 20 plane fleet lost Rs 800 cr - Air India lost a massive Rs 8500 cr - Jet Airways became history.
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4 years
Many of us always wanted to be astronauts anyways.
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1 year
This is the flash @IndiGo6E pilots saw on their cockpit screens at 36,000 feet when #Chandrayan3 landed. As they informed passengers that the eagle has landed a crescendo of claps followed 👏👏👏👍 ✈️
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And here is the @AirIndiaX termination letter sent to crew : - Quite a sharply worded note shot off late night it seems - Concerted action / Email access revoked / No benefits to you or family / Self explanatory ✈️
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And seems the passenger who punched @IndiGo6E pilot has been whisked away by authorities. "Sorry" "No. No sorry"
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3 years
⚡ BREAKING ⚡: - Sixty-eight years after it was taken away from them, Tatas submit their bid to take back Air India, I hear. - The next steps of vetting the application start now ✈
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Yesterday, @AirIndia flight 173 from Delhi to San Francisco was diverted to Magadan, in rural Russia w/ over 220, mostly elderly, passengers. Sat in plane for 6 hrs & after 18 hrs now, no word from Air India, @MEAIndia . Here is a just taken video from a jittery passenger :
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Interiors of the first @airindia A350. Economy. Premium Economy. Business Class. ✈️
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2 months
Sydney to New York non-stop in 22 hours? The @Airbus A350-1000 is even planning on having a well-being area inside the plane to keep people happy. Will people take to such long, captive flights? ✈️
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Couldn't believe this pic today - @jetairways founder Naresh Goyal leaving jail to meet his wife, who is unwell, for the day. ps : pic in the right, i had clicked during an interview with him in istanbul, hotel conrad, 2008. ✈️ #sad #times
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3 years
Message from an Air India staffer : "Salary came today. That’s almost a first in a long long time. Can’t quite remember when we got paid on the last day of the month."
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Had asked for @IndiGo6E statement on this forwarded video : We are aware of the incident that took place on flight 6E 12 from Istanbul to Delhi on December 16, 2022. The issue was related to meals chosen by certain passengers traveling via a codeshare connection. 1/2
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7 years
Mumbai airport airside. #scary #MumbaiRains
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9 months
And here is the second best thing when a new big flying machine arrives : (first being the smooth landing) The water salute 🫡 : @airindia #a350 ✈️
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And look at this. @AirIndiain crew being harassed ar 10 pm last night Lawrence Road, Keshav Puram, Delhi. And they are dying to come back to India if stranded outside the country on special AI, IndiGo etc flights. Cc : @DelhiPolice
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4 years
Sky has planes again ✈️
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Narrow escape for passengers /people at Kedarnath today : - Kestral Aviation's Agusta A119 Koala helicopter VT-CLR operating Sersi- Kedarnath loses control, lands short of helipad - Crew, passengers safe. @DGCAIndia investigating. - Dramatic video : 🚁
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2 years
Orange is the new black. Meet the incoming @AkasaAir crew in their mint fresh dress code:
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Continues..
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2 years
As smoke filled the cabin, " @FlySpiceJet crew members told us to "pray to God" & "jump and run" as soon as the emergency doors opened on landing Airline staff forced us to delete videos and photos of the incident They snatched my phone when I refused."
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5 years
Circulating around, wasnt the case Saturday, anyone can confirm if this is true? So good if so.
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Exclusive and Breaking : - Tatas & @SingaporeAir reach an agreement on Air India - Vistara to merge in @airindiain & the resultant entity Air India to have 25.1% stake of Singapore Air - Merger process kicks off today and to be completed by March 2024
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IndiGo is cognizant of the needs of its customers and it is our constant endeavor to provide a courteous and hassle-free experience to our customers. We are looking into the incident and would like to assure that customers' comfort has always been our top priority. 2/2
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5 years
1953 = 2019.
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10 months
And the new @ManishMalhotra designed uniforms for @airindia crew, pilots are just in. Here goes :
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Delhi-based dietician Khushboo Gupta finds crawling worm in her @IndiGo6E sandwich. "Despite knowing quality of sandwiches was not good, the flight attendant continued to serve sandwiches to others. There were kids, elderly..what if anyone catches infection?" ✈️
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Breaking : - Rakesh Jhunjhunwala backed @AkasaAir gets airline license from @DGCAIndia . - All set to start flights now.
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4 years
Indeed. After the terrible scenes of yesterday in Delhi this brought in some lighter moments today. 👏
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2 years
Someone shared this shocking @airindiain video today Traced it to its Insta origin to the family who suffered @delhiairport Lady had a panic attack & was late by one minute. Gate closed That staff just sits while she is helpless is just horrendous. Could be anyone of us tom?
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3 years
Looks like @airindiain is partying. Last night in Mumbai.
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Video reminded me of that loyal Hutch pug song, you and I in this beautiful world, just that in here : An unpaid @flyspicejet employee has reached a point that he is taking the airline brand everywhere with a placard saying "SpiceJet spoiled my mental health." ✈️
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"In Gurugram, many delivery persons have endless stories of being harassed by rogue customers who place orders (cash-on-delivery), snatch the food, and then rough them up at remote locations, especially late at night"
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2 years
Big : - Singapore Airlines may take a stake in Air India - @AirVistara could merge with @AirIndiain
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2 years
Breaking : - Aviation regulator @DGCAIndia grants @jetairways permissions to start flights. - AOP cleared. 👏👍
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Breaking : - Tatas appoint ex Turkish Airlines chairman Ilker Ayci as CEO & MD of Air India from 1st April - He said : We will utilize strong heritage of AI to make it one of the best airlines in the world with a uniquely superior flying experience that reflects Indian warmth
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6 years
@Ram_Guha One may have political leanings / views but why say celebrating an animal's slaughter. Sad to see a historian tweet such stuff. What will the lesser-read do?
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"If you dont open the door I will break the door". Amazing. Such passengers should be put on no fly list by @DGCAIndia immediately. @airindiain Delhi-Mumbai flight on Boeing 747 returned to bay day before after a snag. Captain wont fly an unsafe plane, passengers must understand!
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6 years
Air India crew now needs to announce "Jai Hind" on all its flights as per a new order today:
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2 years
Just happened : - Akasa Air's @Boeing 737-MAX, VT-YAF operating flight QP-1333 from Ahmedabad to Delhi hit by a bird - Happened during climb - Radome found damaged. @AkasaAir plane declared AOG at @DelhiAirport . 🛩️
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First @Boeing 737 Max of Rakesh Jhunjhunwala-backed @AkasaAir lands at @DelhiAirport . Here is the video : ✈
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3 years
We are totally bhagwan bharose now
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5 months
Dear magnificent @AirIndia @Boeing 747. Bye, now. 🙌 👋👏✈️
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Another flamingo in the sky. First @AkasaAir flight Mumbai - Ahmedabad in Monsoon-laden skies yesterday. All the best for many more #takeoffs . ✈ 🤟🔆
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Air India plane got stuck around @delhiairport - Gurgaon area last night. @AirIndiain says the plane was sold to someone & transported last night. Hope the @airindiain privatisation announcement will not get stuck and be out this coming week. ✈ Video via @deepakseditor
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4 years
Here are some videos from Air India Express IX-1344 Calicut overshoot. Broken aircraft fuselage.
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4 years
Had thought I might see such a picture. Now its past tense.
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Air India crew in all new uniform with CEO Campbell Wilson Like?
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2 years
Massive rush for @qatarairways hiring in Mumbai, @Hilton . People have come from all over but are being sent back without any interviews. Shared by one of the disappointed candidate : 🛩️
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- Aviation ministry asks @airindiain to cut pilot salaries by 60%. - Pilots say they want to give back all the appreciation letters given during #coronavirus flights back to @HardeepSPuri .
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4 years
General Bakshi must be disappointed.
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2 years
Big breaking : - Air India to go for major expansion from winters - launch Mumbai - San Francisco nonstop - Leasing 25 planes- 21 @Airbus A320neos, 4 A321neos, 5 @Boeing 777-200LRs - 777s to join from Dec 2022 to March 2023. Also beef up New York, Bengaluru - San Francisco
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Just in : - @IndiGo6E set to enter long-haul international market, orders 30 widebody @Airbus A350-900 planes - To enter service in 2027 - Also takes options for buying another 70 A350s ✈️
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Eagle has landed. First glimpse of Air India's very first and brand new @airbus A350 in all new colors at @DelhiAirport . VT-JRA or first in the aviation pioneer JRD Tata series ✈️
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Prime Minister @narendramodi 'sfirst message says he will communicate directly through technology http://t.co/ERA2LkFeg8 #ModiMinistry
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Frontline IndiGo staff beam torch lights as a mark of solidarity 👏👏 @IndiGo6E . ✈ #9baje9mintues .
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Just heard on CNBC..fine print says if you are an Indian passport holder and live in Dubai and dont pay any taxes there you may be liable to pay tax in India. #budget2020
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Orange is the new black. #incoming
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3 years
BREAKING : - After 68 years of being taken away, Tatas win Air India, per @business - Announcement soon (shraadh, so after 6th Oct?) - SpiceJet's Ajay Singh being the losing bidder.
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Air India's second @Airbus A350 has landed. The is next in the JRD Tata series and so : VT-JRB. ✈️
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Red carpet. Air India @Airbus A350 @DelhiAirport . ✈️
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AirAsia says it flew 167 migrants from Kochi to Bhubaneswar in collaboration with @sonusood . 👍
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Someone just forwarded. Ahem..
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Mrs. Indira Gandhi's dignified and bold speech (can't be part of power groupings, she tells @ronaldreagan at the @whitehouse south lawns in 1982) versus Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger's filthy comments. @nixonfoundation .
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3 years
Tata Chairman N Chandra's first internal letter to AI employees. His first @AirIndiain flight? :
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