India, June 17 -- A Bengaluru woman has sparked a discussion online after joking that Indian apartment complexes are no longer residential communities but "sovereign nations" complete with governments, opposition parties and parliaments that meet exclusively on WhatsApp.

"At this point, Indian apartment complexes aren't residential communities. They're sovereign nations," Dipika Jaikishan, a Bengaluru-based co-founder, wrote in a post on X.

Jaikishan compared Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) to miniature democracies, saying that they have "their own government, opposition parties, bureaucracy, law enforcement, and a Parliament that meets exclusively on WhatsApp."

"There are elections. There is campaigning. There are factions. There...