What IndiGo revealed, perhaps unintentionally, perhaps not, is that the infrastructure of this nation is not a shared inheritance. It's a gated commons, and when the gate malfunctions and the privileged briefly find themselves outside, the panic is treated as a national emergency.

RELOS and the ministerial talks functioned as two parts of the same strategy – quietly laying the groundwork for future deals while allowing India to perform a balancing act between sustaining ties with Russia and managing strategic relationships with the US. 

Netflix’s decision to excise Discovery’s cable channels from the agreement indicates its desire to avoid ownership of the legacy TV infrastructure of broadcast, cable and satellite television.

Three incidents in one week: a detained traveller in Shanghai, a revived claim on Sindh, and a currency note from Kathmandu, reveal a South Asia where small symbols now carry the weight of territorial claims. The danger lies not in armies but in imaginations sharpened into weapons.