London’s Club campaigns against sacking of Indian airline steward

A London club is protesting the sacking of an Indian airline steward. The solidary is not inspired by Karl Marx’s call of “Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains.” London’s Handlebar Club was founded in 1947, its only qualification for membership being “a hirsute appendage of the upper lip and with graspable extremities”.
The sacked steward, Joynath Victor De, has been sporting a handlebar moustache since 1968 when he joined Indian Airlines and is a member of the London club. The Handlebar Club posted a message on its website that “due to the action taken against him for keeping his moustache, De and his family have suffered.
It seems surprising that antipathy to the moustache should arise in India. According to the Guinness Book of Records, the record-holders for the longest moustache in the world have for several years been Indian gentleman. De is only following in a respected tradition”.
16/02/08 Economic Times

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