Generally, whenever colleagues from abroad visit Bangalore, I keep a local SIM card in my name ready for them. After the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, the govt

Generally, whenever colleagues from abroad visit Bangalore, I keep a local SIM card in my name ready for them. After the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, the govt of India made it ludicrously difficult for any foreigner to get a local SIM card. I found this absolutely strange since the Mumbai terrorists never used local SIM cards - they were using satellite phones. I guess some guy in national security had a checklist of security proposals to implement and this was on the list. And once a complex process gets implemented in India, due to bureaucratic inertia, it never gets simplified.