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Here's the thing about India: vegetarianism is big there. Like really big. Like if you held a PETA convention on an isolated island where the only meat available was mad cow infested beef, that would come close to describing how big vegetarianism is in some traditional and rural parts of India. Which is not to say that the majority of Indians are vegetarians - though it's close - but as a respected cultural practice, vegetarianism is given a very wide berth.

So after the incident the airline rushed into damage control, sending officials to visit Kaushik personally and offering him two international roundtrip vouchers. Of course you can never undo the damage a person suffers from violating their own morals, even inadvertently. But two international roundtrip tickets are a pretty good start. We have very few really ironclad moral principles and - if pushed - we'd probably violate a third to half of them for two trips abroad. What? Don't judge.

But Kaushik, a lawyer by trade, rejected the offer and took the airline to court. Did we mention he's a lawyer by profession? Some have insinuated that that has something to do with this ongoing fiasco.

Anyway, even the judges have reached the point where they're rolling their eyes at him. The court acknowledged that the Indian Airlines was negligent and instructed the company to pay Kaushik a little over $1,000. Then they told everyone to move on. They specifically noted how Kaushik had been offered two international plane tickets, which they affirmed is pretty sweet compensation package just about anything. See?

[Photo: Debarka Banik / Wiki Commons]

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