Yes, that is what I thought. I read in the paper while visiting there that the government sees an A380 as a backdoor approach to increasing capacity and taking business away from India-based airlines. Never figured out the logic. But that was a year ago.

First they said the airports cannot handle the A380. But, as I understand, DEL was upgraded since then and looks like BOM is also being redone. I think even HYD saw a landing when one of the airlines (either Quantas or EK) had a problem.