There is something fitting in a photograph meant to capture three leaders accidentally making a star of the man behind them. Diplomacy is remembered through its principals, the handshakes, the summits, the smiling group portraits. It is made to work by people like Sidharth Babu, unnamed in the caption yet essential to the exchange, ensuring that when the most powerful men on earth speak to one another, they are genuinely understood. For once, the figure in the background got to step, briefly, into the light.
