Kalam humiliated by US Airlines?
If they can handcuff a Harvard Professor for trying to enter his own house, frisking former President APJ Abdul Kalam cannot be great news. It seems an American Airlines frisked the former President and asked him to take off his shoes while entering a US Airlines aircraft.
We Indians are aghast! But why? What's wrong in frisking a former President? Isn't it possible that somebody can put a bomb in his coat pocket just before he boards a plane? Why should we create a hype when our VIPs are put through the same drill as ordinary citizens? I have seen even Central Excise Inspectors feel offended when the factory Security wants to frisk them – the whole idea is Security, not Status.
If your argument is that Bill Clinton, will never be frisked in India – please go ahead and do it – and certainly the US Congress will not discuss it.