a network linked to india's reliance communications broadcast rogue bgp routes for telegram's ip address space, pulling the messaging service offline not only in india — where authorities had ordered a block during exams — but across three continents. researchers confirmed the rogue announcement; telegram's founder publicly attributed it to reliance-linked infrastructure. a state-adjacent routing maneuver intended for national content control that spills to global scale is structurally unusual: it demonstrates how regional actors can weaponize internet routing topology well beyond their intended jurisdiction.