The 'necessary' agent
Want to buy a house? Get an agent. Want to get a railway ticket? Get an agent. Want to make passport? Get an agent. And now, don’t want the authorities to stop you from boarding your flight? Well, just get an agent.
This is what an US citizen who had a Pakistani passport had to face at the Delhi airport recently. Read his story and see the wide network of agents and how they are hand in glove with the government officials. One wonders, if we will next have to buy vegetables via an agent?