Blood usually comes with an unputdownable urgency.

When it flows from a wound, it has to be immediately attended to; when from an inverted bottle, quickly pushed through the patient’s veins; and when spilled by terrorists, instantly avenged.

Indians and their friends around the world are not wrong in thinking after Tuesday’s Pahalgam massacre that revenge should come within hours, and at a magnitude much higher than the Islamist barbarity.

There is, however, the question of what Shri Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita calls ‘stithpragya’. Loosely translated, it is steady wisdom…the quality of someone who is not swayed by external circumstances while making crucial decisions.

Because Pahalgam is most likely a........

© News18