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An Indian single mother boarding an early flight with a sleepy seven-year-old has more on her mind than seat selection. She is mentally running through a checklist that married couples rarely think about: birth certificate, notarised consent letter, school ID, custody papers, and the soft-cover folder that holds everything together. The airport queue does not

The Iyer family in Bengaluru does this every summer. Two parents, two school-age kids, one annual ten day holiday somewhere outside India. This year it is Switzerland. The flight tickets are booked, the Schengen visa is in process, the kids have a new pair of trekking shoes each. Then the father pauses on the last