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\u2019s 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\u2019s opinions, the airline deleted the tweet, citing the numerous disrespectful and hurtful comments it had got.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\u2019s 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}