In the dead of night, as Indian jets roared across the sky in a precise, non-escalatory retaliation for the Pahalgam massacre, a different war was unfolding online, a war of narratives. As India mourned 26 lives, shot point-blank after being asked their religion, social media lit up with outrage, not at the killers, but at the country that dared to respond.

This isn’t new, every time India acts, from Balakot to Sindoor, a section of the privileged, urban elite dusts off its moral high horse to sermonise against retaliation. These are not voices for peace but are voices of comfort, cocooned in a safe distance from border realities, preaching peace at the cost of justice.

Let’s be clear:

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