Out of tune

So should airlines play the keening, trance-like Siddi folk music from the Kutch peninsula?

Managements of India’s airports and airlines must be busy working on ways to capitalise on the buoyancy they saw in the latter half of 2021. The civil aviation ministry, you would have thought, will be busy ensuring that the sector stays on this higher flight path. But in the last week of 2021, other concerns seem to have exercised the ministry. It found time to send airlines and airport operators a memo asking them to play Indian music on flights being operated in India and in airports “following the regulatory requisites” (whatever that means).

A letter from a joint secretary