Full-service airline Vistara seems to have entangled itself in a bit of an online mess. Over the weekend, it tweeted a photograph of two crew members along with Major General G.D. Bakshi (Retd) on one of its flights. The tweet said the airline was honoured to have a Kargil War hero onboard. What the company would perhaps have thought to be an innocuous tweet, however, upset a section of India’s Twitterati because Major General Bakshi is viewed by many as a war-monger. He is often seen on television screens as a participant in raucous news debates, vociferously backing nationalist calls for tough military reprisals against Pakistan and hard action against terrorism in Kashmir. To contain a controversy over the man’s opinions, the airline deleted the tweet, citing the numerous disrespectful and hurtful comments it had got.
