The coincidence is almost cinematic. Just as IndiGo's chaos unfolded across Indian cities with the cancellation of over 1,000 flights, an old video of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was on an official trip to India , started being shared. A clip many began sharing amid the Indigo crisis to say, "Oligarchs can't take the state for a ride".

On live TV, Putin, who was then the Prime Minister of Russia, publicly humiliated a top oligarch, once Russia's richest man, who had not paid his workers for three months. The New York Times headlined its story as, 'Putin plays sheriff for cowboy capitalists'. Later, this entire confrontation went viral in reels of the classic 'Sigma Putin' energy.

The mass cancellations of IndiGo flights came even as Putin was on a state visit to India. The

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