NationalInterest: A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

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The unfortunate Tejas crash and the pilot’s death at the Dubai
Air Show are a shattering moment. The Indian Air Force (IAF) is
too strong, proud and professional to let this weigh it down. For
India’s policymakers, however, this is a useful juncture to
reflect on whether they’ve been, and are being entirely fair to
the IAF, given what it needs. Or in the demands they place on the
IAF, the compromises and “adjustments” they seek. It is also
important, however, that we take a deep breath and remind
ourselves that pilots are particularly tough people. Among the
toughest of them will be found in the IAF because globally they
are some of those few who remain perpetually in operational mode
— Watch this week's #NationalInterest with ThePrint’s
Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta.


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To read this week's National Interest:
https://theprint.in/national-interest/a-tribute-to-tejas-indias-delay-culture-is-the-real-enemy-in-the-skies/2789632/