One rainy afternoon he found himself scrolling forums and threads about IPTV. The term came with its own grammar: playlists, PIDs, load balancers, and M3U files — a simple plain-text format that mapped names to streaming URLs. For many, an M3U playlist was just something technical; for Ravi it suddenly looked like an instrument of possibility. He imagined a curated lineup: a morning block of news from London and Delhi, an afternoon selection of regional movies, sports feeds that didn’t miss a goal, and late-night indie films that would make his father pause and ask, “Who’s that?”