Indian tourists seek luxury of Maldives, Dubai as foreign travel restarts – but not everyone’s excited

When the Indian government announced it was restarting international travel on March 27 after two years of limited flights amid the pandemic, Jaideep Kelkar immediately booked a week-long holiday for his family of five to the Maldives. “Before the pandemic, we travelled at least twice annually to foreign destinations to bond as a family,” said the 48-year-old Mumbai-based garment exporter. “But the two pandemic years ruined all such plans. So we were literally counting down the days until we…