A daidai lokacin da hasken bel ɗin kujera ya fita a cikin jirgin farko na Cathay Pacific na Delhi-Bangkok a wannan bazarar, ƙungiyar mawaƙa ta ƙarfe dong ɗin ta fashe kamar ɗaki mai ɗaki na Ritalin mai shekaru 5 wanda ya hana shi ya zama sako-sako a kan arsenal na xylophones.
Fasinjojin na kai hari kan maballin kiransu.
A cikin dakika guda, ma'aikatan jirgin sun tashi suna gudu. Lokacin da suka fara dafa abinci na musamman, haushi ya fara tashi.
"Wiskey!" ya bukaci wani dattijo mai farin gemu a lokacin da matashin ma’aikacin jirgin kasar China ya yi kokarin sanya abinci a gabansa.
"Yallabai, yanzu ba drinks muke yi ba," ma'aikacin jirgin ya amsa cikin ladabi. (Dong! Dong-dong! Do-Dong, dongdong!)
A layi na gaba, wani mutum, ƙarami amma ba ƙaramin magana ba, ya miƙe ya danna maballin kiransa, sai ma'aikacin da ya zage damtse ya kori ɗan Scotch ɗin.
"Arre, irin wannan ɗan ƙaramin peg ɗin da ta ba ku," Abokin tsohon ya nuna rashin amincewa.
Domin!
Da zarar duniya ta so ƙin Mummunar Ba'amurke - mai kitse, mai yawan surutu da jin daɗi a cikin jahilcinsa na al'ada. Amma tun da rikicin tattalin arziki ya sanya kibosh akan kasafin balaguron balaguro na Amurka da Turai, akwai sabon yaro a garin. Kasuwar balaguron balaguro ta Indiya ta jefa rayuwar da ake buƙata sosai ga masana'antar yawon shakatawa a kudu maso gabashin Asiya, Turai da kuma nesa.
Ga waɗancan jakunkuna na schlepping da shaye-shaye, ko da yake, Mummunan Indiya na iya zama mai buƙatuwa cewa layin rayuwa wani lokacin yana kama da yana da hanci a ƙarshensa.
"Abin al'ada ne," in ji Pankaj Gupta, mai mallakar Outbound Travels, wata hukumar balaguro ta New Delhi. "A Indiya, muna da bayin da za su yi komai a gidajen kowa, don haka mutane sun saba kai musu kaya."
Rikicin al'adu ya riga ya haifar da rikice-rikicen hulɗar jama'a da dama. A cikin watan Mayu, alal misali, gungun fasinjojin Indiya sun haifar da wani ɗan ƙaramin abin mamaki a cikin jaridun cikin gida lokacin da suka gabatar da zarge-zargen wariyar launin fata ga Air France - suna masu cewa lokacin da jirginsu ya yi jinkiri na sa'o'i 28 a birnin Paris an kai wasu fasinjoji zuwa otal, amma An sanya Indiyawan jira a cikin falo. (Ba a yi bambanci ba bisa kabilanci, amma akan mallakar ingantaccen visa na Schengen, kamfanin jirgin sama ya kiyaye).
A wani lamari makamancin haka a shekara ta 2006, fasinjoji 12 na Indiya sun zargi jirgin saman Northwest da nuna wariyar launin fata lokacin da aka sauke su aka kuma tsare su a Amsterdam saboda abin da ma’aikatan jirgin suka kira “halayyan zato.”
"Ka yi tunanin kama wasu mutane 12 kawai saboda suna canza kujeru suna magana da wayoyinsu a lokacin da jirgin ke tashi," in ji Jug Suraiya, ɗan wasan barkwanci na Indiya a cikin shafinsa na Times of India. "Kowa yana yin hakan a Indiya koyaushe, kuma babu wanda aka kama."
Sai dai kamar yadda dan yawon bude ido na Amurkan na plaid bai taba hana Faransa neman dalarsa ba, kishirwar dan yawon bude ido na Indiya ga Scotch bai sa kudinsa ya yi kasa a gwiwa ba. Allolin yawon bude ido daga jerin wanki na ƙasashe sun mamaye biranen Indiya tare da wakilai - ko kuma kawai sun kafa kantuna a nan. Kamfanonin zirga-zirgar jiragen sama da otal a ƙasashen waje sun ba kamfanonin balaguron balaguro na Indiya rahusa farashin ƙasa, kuma sun ja da baya don yin gasa - buɗe wuraren dafa abinci ga masu dafa abinci na Indiya, suna haɓaka ɗakunan karatu na nishaɗin jirgin sama tare da fina-finai na Bollywood, da yaƙin haƙori da ƙusa don cin abinci. dama ya karbi bakuncin taurari irin su Shah Rukh Khan da Amitabh Bachchan don karramawar fina-finan Indiya ta kasa da kasa.
Dalilin yana da sauki. Duk da koma baya, kasuwar tafiye-tafiyen Indiya har yanzu tana girma. A cewar kungiyar balaguron balaguron Asiya ta Pacific, sama da Indiyawa 800,000 ne ake sa ran za su ziyarci Singapore a wannan shekara, fiye da Indiyawan 669,000 ne ake sa ran za su ziyarci Amurka kuma sama da 625,000 ake sa ran za su ziyarci Malaysia. Bugu da ƙari, PATA na tsammanin adadin baƙi Indiyawa zuwa Singapore, Malaysia da Amurka don ci gaba da girma cikin sauri ta hanyar 2011.
"Tun da aka fara rikicin tattalin arziki, an samu raguwar tafiye-tafiye, amma raguwar tafiye-tafiyen Indiyawa ya yi kadan idan aka kwatanta da kowace kasa," in ji Gupta. "Har yanzu Indiyawan suna tafiya da yawa. Wataƙila wasu mutane sun ragu, a ce, maimakon zuwa Amurka don tafiya kusa da gida, amma har yanzu suna balaguro zuwa ƙasashen waje. "
Yawancin waɗannan matafiya na Indiya, ba shakka, haziƙane ne, masu hankali, masu fara'a, ko tawali'u da ladabi kawai - kawai babu wanda ya tuna da su. Ga kowane fasinja da ke cikin Delhi-Bangkok na Cathay yana gudu da yatsansa a kan maɓallin kira, akwai uku ko huɗu waɗanda ke barci cikin sauri, sun ruɗe a cikin barguna, ko kuma cikin lumana a cikin fina-finai marasa hankali.
Yawancin matsalolin suna haifar da rashin fahimta mai sauƙi, in ji Thomas Thottathil, mai magana da yawun Cox & Kings, daya daga cikin manyan kamfanonin yawon shakatawa na Indiya. "Muna wayar da kan abokan cinikinmu, jagororin balaguro, kuma muna kuma bayyana wa masu samar da mu a ketare - otal-otal ko duk wani abu - cewa matafiya Indiya suna da nasu bukatun, halaye na musamman." Saboda wannan yunƙurin, Thottathil ya ce kamfanin nasa bai fuskanci wani abu mai tsanani ba fiye da ƙarar da ake yi na lokaci-lokaci cewa otal bai ba da abincin dare ba bayan 9:30 na dare.
Thottathil na iya zama a kan wani abu. Wani darasi mai sauri game da ƙaunar cin kasuwa na Indiyawa, alal misali, na iya sauƙaƙe tashin hankalin duniya a cikin iska. Menene sirrin al'adu da yawa ga jirgin natsuwa, kuna tambaya?
Wuski dala biyar.
