im just a young guy who has stayed in mumbai from childhood till 2001. i used to frequently visit the airport as my dad who was residing in the gulf visited us for his vacations. also now im in the gulf since 2001 and i have travelled 12 times to india since that year till november 2005 which was my last trips. i've been to various other airports like abu dhabi , dubai and qatar while coming to mumbai by via flights. i just wanna say that our mumbai airport is not that in a bad state where it needs modernisation.I dont mean to say that it doesnt need any modernisations. It does but only in some spaces.The main cause for this is the staff and the officers working in the airport. the basic logic is we are having illiterate custom officers and also ground staff (NOT OF AIRLINES,MIND IT) who dont even know how to speak proper english. The toilets , i think the toilets in restaurants in india are much cleaner than that of the airports.Please for god sake have some pity on the expatriates who just wait eagerly to come back to their own country after such a long break of hard work , and alas! what do they see. the filth and shameless work of our fellow indians. v shud b the best of all.