| Most western countries also haven't had multiple attempted [0][1][2] and committed [3][4] mass casualty terror attacks nor a direct conventional conflict that for all intents and purposes was a war [5] in the past 2 years. And airport security in Israel makes Indian airport security feel like a breeze and I found Turkish airport security to be similar to India's (I remember landing in IST a couple years ago post-COVID and how the news monitors all blared about the 3-6 Turkish soldiers who died in Turkish controlled Syria the day previously). All three are in very tenuous neighborhoods where the risks of mass casualty terror attacks remains a very real possibility and no on-duty officer wants to be the one who's name comes up in an inquiry into a terror attack should they happen. Also, from what I remember you are either a Chinese national or someone who has travelled significantly to China. It's the equivalent of a Russian national or Russian-origin person traveling to Poland or Estonia post-2022. Anyone with that profile falls under stricter scrutiny in India due to reciprocal treatment of Indian-nationals and Indian-origin people from Arunachal [6][7] and Ladakh [8] as well as the multiple recent India-China standoffs. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Delhi_car_explosion [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Nowgam_explosion [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Bengaluru_cafe_bombing [3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Reasi_attack [4] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Pahalgam_attack [5] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_India%E2%80%93Pakistan_co... [6] - https://indianexpress.com/article/world/who-is-prema-thongdo... [7] - https://idsa.in/publisher/comments/china-ups-the-ante-in-aru... [8] - https://www.indiatoday.in/news-analysis/story/why-china-is-e... |
The needless repetition and duplication of tasks achieves little actual "security" and is more a jobs program for a population that is desperately underskilled, underemployed and borderline unemployable. Never mind the fact that airports like Bombay are literally meters away from slums, which are a far greater security risk than actual passengers.
Your list of citations is entirely meaningless because Indian airports are no more or less secure than the average airport in the west. What India manages to do extremely well is annoy the daylights out of travellers for mindless bureaucratic reasons.
Please can you explain how security stamping the back of your boarding pass meaningfully adds to "security" and how fifteen checks of your passport could have avoided a single one of the incidents you list?