Attacks on Vikram Misri are downright vile. It proves right ThePrint reportage on the rise of a MAGA-like ultra-Right phenomenon in the Hindutva fringe. Trolling the FS and family for India’s smart, mature ceasefire, and forcing him to protect his X account isn’t national interest. It’s a viciously unpatriotic act.
Operation Sindoor wasn’t a war to finish Pakistan. Ceasefire is welcome denouement
The ceasefire is a welcome denouement, with Operation Sindoor aims realised. It was to punish Pahalgam plotters and convince their patrons of inevitable military risk hereafter. It wasn’t a war to finish Pakistan. All targets were clinically struck, evidence produced, later Pakistani airbases hit punitively. A good 72-hour military-diplomatic outing.
If Pakistan acts wisely, there will be no more military outings by India.
The days since the Pahalgam attack, the briefings on Operation Sindoor, are FS Vikram Misri’s moment. Gravitas, professional competence, he comes across as a very imposing figure. Worthy of heading the diplomatic corps. The future holds a lot of good for him in the service of India.