Devasmita Chakraverty News Today

A professor at IIM tweeted that the woman aboard IndiGo 6E 7297 was originally sitting in 2A (XL seat, exit row) was forced to shift to seat 3C because she understood only Telugu, not English/Hindi.

KTR was responding to a tweet which claimed that a woman was “forced” from exit row seat because she understood only Telugu, not English/ Hindi.

Rama Rao responded to the tweet and said local languages should be respected.

Retweeting a tweet by a user named Devasmita Chakraverty, Rao wrote, “Dear IndiGo management, I request you to start respecting local languages and passengers who may not be well conversant in English or Hindi."

Devasmita Chakraverty, an assistant professor of education at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad tweeted that the woman aboard IndiGo 6E 7297 was originally sitting in 2A (XL seat, exit row) was forced to shift to seat 3C because she understood only Telugu, not English/Hindi.

A Telugu woman, seated in the emergency exit row, was allegedly forced to change her seat on an IndiGo plane as she could not speak English.

Hyderabad: An incident aboard IndiGo airlines involving a Telugu-speaking woman, who was moved from her seat, has sparked a discussion on discrimination on the basis of language on social media.  A recent tweet from Devasmita Chakraverty, an Assistant Professor at IIM Ahmedabad, highlighted that the airline's staff moved a Telugu woman from her seat citing security issues as