If someone can walk in with an explosive device (luggage security at the first entrance is quite casual) and then leave, what exactly is the point of showing a printout? Is it anything more than the great Indian bureaucratic love affair with regulations and procedures? (The printout really should be submitted in triplicate, self-attested by the passenger, and rubber-stamped by the guard.)

In the rest of the world they do security once per flight (occasionally twice). In India we do it many times per flight (thereby providing employment) but sloppily each time.

What's the point of putting that damn rubber stamp on the luggage tag that you must remember to attach to the hand luggage? No one can read the blurry stamp, it could be a tag from last year. How come the rest of the world manages without this crucial anti-terrorist measure?