ELON Musk spent the second week of October turning a regulatory delay into a morality play. On October 7, he complained that “certain oligarchs” were keeping Starlink out of India. A day later, he asked whether Mukesh Ambani was “the real boss of India”. By October 9, he was addressing “Prime Minister Ambani” in a sarcastic apology. The story had everything a social media feed wants: a foreign innovator, a domestic tycoon and an observant bureaucracy in between.