This is hardly a tit for tat action. The DGCA has been under scrutiny for the better part of the last decade, diplomatic crisis or not. And each audit had forebearings of disaster. But these guys scraped through each time, which amazed me, because they truly are an inept and corrupt regulator.
And there really is no shame in being embarrassed about this because it truly IS embarrassing. As mentioned earlier this is actually a blessing in disguise. A byproduct of being a global player, as India wants to be, is being held up to global standards, which are, fortunately more exacting than the chalta hai/theek hai attitude which pervades the Indian way of doing things.
This is hopefully a wakeup call for the DGCA and Indian industry as a whole. But then again, I expected drastic changes in the way we fly after the Mangalore disaster. So not expecting any significant changes this time as well. The inertia of the juggernaut that is the Indian bureaucratic malaise needs a lot more than a momentary (hopefully) downgrade.
