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Battered & bruised: How mistrust led to feud between two IndiGo co-founders

While the relationship between the two partners had deteriorated since August 2018, one last attempt at reconciliation was made at a meeting held in the offices of Bhatia's lawyer on May 28 this year

According to media reports, serious differences have cropped up between the two chief promoters over strategies and ambitions for the airline
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Anjuli Bhargava New Delhi
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship: John D Rockerfeller
Two men met in the late 80s when one was a general sales agent for an American airline and the other worked at the same airline. The relationship at the time was professional and cordial. By the late 1990s, the two struck up a friendship. They were no longer in a vendor/customer relationship. 

What started as a friendship grew into a deep bond. The two visited and stayed at each other’s homes, took common vacations, closely knew each other’s families and children and shared a