When you pay ₹13,500 for a one-hour flight during diwali, don’t blame “market demand.”
Blame a government that has let corporate greed become a festive tradition.
Eid tickets at ₹4,500. diwali tickets at ₹13,500. Premium Tatkal that triples overnight.
This isn’t economics — this is exploitation wearing a saffron smile.
While the government floods whatsapp with “festival greetings,” it quietly looks away as airlines, railways, and middlemen strip the public clean.
Welcome to “New India” — where worshipping lakshmi costs your salary.
1. From festival to Finance Scheme — The Loot Is Legalized
Every diwali, the same script plays out: airlines hike fares, railways throttle seat availability, and passengers pay for being sentimental enough to go home.
This isn’t free market dynamics — it’s corporate opportunism with government blessings.
2. Eid vs. Diwali: Two Fares, One Hypocrisy
During Eid, you fly for ₹4.5k. During diwali, it’s ₹13.5k.
Why? Because airlines know sentiment is a commodity — and the government knows silence is profitable.
This selective “market surge” exposes not economics, but apathy towards Hindu festival-goers — the very people the bjp claims to represent.
3. Tatkal or Total Scam?
Railways were once the poor man’s travel option. Now, even Premium Tatkal tickets cost ₹6,000.
For that price, you could fly abroad in budget deals.
The government that once promised “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas” is now running “Sabka Loot, adani Ka Laabh.”
4. The Silent DGCA and the Sleeping Ministries
India’s aviation regulator can summon airlines for seatbelt malfunctions — but not for ticket gouging that triples fares overnight.
Civil Aviation Ministry? Missing in action.
Railway Ministry? Too busy making reels about Vande Bharat instead of ensuring affordable travel.
Governance shouldn’t take a festival vacation.
5. Capitalism Without Conscience: The indian Way of Travel
Other countries cap ticket surges during national holidays.
India allows a full-blown corporate diwali bonanza where passengers are treated like ATMs with emotional triggers.
You can’t call it “free market” when the freedom belongs only to the corporations.
6. Modi’s Silence — The Loudest Policy of All
For a government that tweets for every minor “achievement,” it’s strangely quiet about skyrocketing fares.
Modi ji’s photo appears on flight inaugurations, train station posters, even ration bags —
But not one word about protecting passengers from festive fleecing.
7. The Myth of ‘Ease of Travel’
“Ease of Living,” they said. “Ease of Looting,” it became.
When the middle class can’t afford to go home for diwali, the system has failed.
And failure under silence is complicity.
8. No Accountability, No Limits, No Shame
airlines blame demand, the government blames airlines, and passengers blame luck.
It’s a circle of exploitation powered by your helplessness.
India has mastered the art of privatizing pain and nationalizing PR.
💣 CLOSING STRIKE
So this diwali, while you light diyas and chant “Modi ji ki jai”, remember:
You’re not just celebrating a festival — you’re financing one.
Because in today’s India, faith costs extra, patriotism comes with surge pricing, and silence is sold as strength.
Thank you, Modi ji, indeed, for turning diwali into a business plan.
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