Addendum: Added a flowchart at the end of the post (before the Air India related note) to extrapolate (based on publicly available perspectives on what and how things went wrong), to showcase the points which could have diffused the situation from becoming…

There is extensive debate around character certificates stemming from being followed by the head of a country recently in India. It has even made it to the New York Times! The background to all this debate is this. A noted journalist in…