The indefinite postponement of the Air India crash inquiry is a scandal that would have made the late Victorians blush. British aviation experts, the very custodians of a legacy that once ruled the skies, are now demanding answers. Yet their cries echo into a void of administrative inertia.
This delay is not merely a procedural hiccup; it is a symptom of a deeper malady: the decline of institutional competence. We live in an age where inquiries become political footballs, where the truth is sacrificed on the altar of convenience. The Air India crash, a tragedy that claimed hundreds of lives, now joins the ranks of unresolved mysteries, left to gather dust in some bureaucratic pigeonhole.
The experts are right to be outraged. But their outrage is met with the shrug of a system that has lost its moral compass. One cannot help but draw parallels to the fall of Rome, where paperwork and politics smothered the pursuit of justice.
The Victorian era, for all its faults, knew the value of a thorough investigation. Today, we settle for half-truths and excuses. Shame on us all.
