New Delhi, March 1 -- Imagine being on a flight, all 'just settled in', 'reading a book', totally unaware of what is happening outside, till you realise you may not reach your destination at all because a 'war-like' situation has suddenly unfolded. What was meant to be a routine journey for an Indian CEO travelling from Delhi to New York via Kuwait, turned out to be a "never-imagined" situation with a day full of uncertainty, as all flights to and from Gulf nations were disrupted amid Israel-US-Iran clashes.

In a long-worded post on X, Indian tech entrepreneur Sanjay Varnwal detailed his ordeal about how everything felt "completely normal" when his connecting flight took off from Kuwait for New York on Saturday, 28 February - the day US-...