00:00At the bottom, you have a nightclub in Goa running on illegal land with state demolition orders and zero exits.
00:05At the top, you have the country's dominant airline breaking under the weight of basic safety rules.
00:16Over 20 people went to a nightclub in Goa and came out in body bags.
00:20Thousands and thousands are stuck in airports because Indigo will not budge.
00:23Indiain, go to save my life.
00:26Late Saturday night, Burj by Romeo Lane and Arpora went up in flames. 25 people dead, around 50 injured.
00:32Most of those who died were not partygoers. They were workers trapped in the basement, suffocating in a space that should never have existed.
00:39The club was an illegal construction on salt pans, slapped with demolition and license notices,
00:44which were conveniently stayed so it could keep minting money.
00:47That is the bottom end of India's enforcement crisis.
00:50Now look at the top end, India's most important airline Indigo controls roughly 60-65% of the domestic market.
00:56In 2024, the government announced new flight duty time limitation rules to make flying safer.
01:01Most carriers adjusted, but Indigo kept running a lean roster and did not rework schedules in time.
01:07Over 1200 flights were cancelled in November alone, thousands more in the first week of December.
01:11On-time performance collapsing into single digits.
01:14So at the bottom, you have a nightclub in Goa running on illegal land with state demolition orders and zero exits.
01:19At the top, you have the country's dominant airline breaking under the weight of basic safety rules.
01:24And instead of enforcing those rules, the state bends them.
01:28In New India 2.0, you can have a $5 trillion dream, but your club is an illegal firetrap.
01:34You can have the world's fastest growing aviation market, but one airline can throw the entire country into chaos and get core safety rules diluted instead of being forced to comply.
01:44From birch to indigo, the message is the same.
01:47Laws are flexible, accountability is negotiable, and the value of an Indian life is still discounted.
01:53Oh, and I hope you enjoyed the Parliament discussion on the 150th anniversary of Vande Matram today.
01:57The Prime Minister linked the song to the emergency imposed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi 50 years ago.
02:02Vande Matram was authored by Bengal's Bankim Chandra Chatterjee much earlier, of course, in 1875.
02:07Unrelated information, West Bengal elections are due in 2026.
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