India, March 22 -- A United States-based software developer has sparked a discussion on in-flight etiquette after refusing to switch seats with an Indian man on a plane. Indian-American techie Saran Shanmugam said he was on a flight when an Indian man approached him and asked him to switch from his aisle seat to the middle seat.

"Was traveling a Middle Eastern airline. I had chosen the aisle seat as I typically do in advance," Shanmugam, the Director Of Information Technology at Biophysical Society, said in an X post.

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Shanmugam said that an Indian man approached him and asked him to switch seats so he co...