{"id":273820,"date":"2025-12-26T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=273820"},"modified":"2026-01-20T13:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:03:07","slug":"motherland-india-rocks-indigo-shocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/motherland-india-rocks-indigo-shocks\/","title":{"rendered":"#Motherland: India Rocks, IndiGo Shocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A snapshot of people waiting at the IndiGo counter, anxious to get to their destination. Many people report waiting multiple days before ultimately making it to their destination<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It has been a whirlwind few weeks for India, swinging between historic victories, diplomatic bear hugs, and serious travel turbulence. Here is the latest roundup from <b>Siliconeer<\/b>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#8220;It was a travel nightmare,\u201d quipped our very own publisher. Stuck at Bangalore airport for 20 hours, she was anxious to get on her flight to reach her hometown. The country\u2019s largest domestic carrier, IndiGo, faced a massive meltdown, resulting in thousands of flights being canceled and stranding over a million passengers. Now, usually, airline companies and airport staff are helpful and accommodating in such situations. Not IndiGo. Lounge access was promised, not delivered. No accommodation. No empathy. It seems that India wants tourists on paper, but reality says otherwise.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-273811\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PAGE-INDIA-IN-PICS-07-INDIA-BLR-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PAGE-INDIA-IN-PICS-07-INDIA-BLR-3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PAGE-INDIA-IN-PICS-07-INDIA-BLR-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PAGE-INDIA-IN-PICS-07-INDIA-BLR-3-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PAGE-INDIA-IN-PICS-07-INDIA-BLR-3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PAGE-INDIA-IN-PICS-07-INDIA-BLR-3-661x372.jpg 661w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PAGE-INDIA-IN-PICS-07-INDIA-BLR-3-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Amidst the chaos that ensued at Bangalore airport, the silver lining was a warm and welcoming South Indian meal amongst the many delicacies available to order at the terminal.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_273797\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-273797\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-273797 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PAGE-INDIA-IN-PICS-05-INDIA-BLR-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PAGE-INDIA-IN-PICS-05-INDIA-BLR-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PAGE-INDIA-IN-PICS-05-INDIA-BLR-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PAGE-INDIA-IN-PICS-05-INDIA-BLR-1-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PAGE-INDIA-IN-PICS-05-INDIA-BLR-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PAGE-INDIA-IN-PICS-05-INDIA-BLR-1-661x372.jpg 661w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PAGE-INDIA-IN-PICS-05-INDIA-BLR-1-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-273797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glimpses of the crowd at The Rameshwaram Cafe in Bangalore Airport amidst the IndiGo meltdown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_273810\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-273810\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-273810 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PAGE-INDIA-IN-PICS-06-INDIA-BLR-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PAGE-INDIA-IN-PICS-06-INDIA-BLR-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PAGE-INDIA-IN-PICS-06-INDIA-BLR-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PAGE-INDIA-IN-PICS-06-INDIA-BLR-2-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PAGE-INDIA-IN-PICS-06-INDIA-BLR-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PAGE-INDIA-IN-PICS-06-INDIA-BLR-2-661x372.jpg 661w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PAGE-INDIA-IN-PICS-06-INDIA-BLR-2-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-273810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glimpses of the crowd at The Rameshwaram Cafe in Bangalore Airport amidst the IndiGo meltdown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Images: Seema Gupta\/Siliconeer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A snapshot of people waiting at the IndiGo counter, anxious to get to their destination. Many people report waiting multiple days before ultimately making it to their destination It has been a whirlwind few weeks for India, swinging between historic victories, diplomatic bear hugs, and serious travel turbulence. Here is the latest roundup from Siliconeer&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/motherland-india-rocks-indigo-shocks\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":273812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65027,11744,71],"tags":[1509,5248,65186,50,2555,65185],"class_list":["post-273820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motherland","category-india-south-asia","category-travel-lifestyle","tag-bangalore","tag-airport","tag-bangalore-airport","tag-india","tag-indigo","tag-travel-nightmares"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}