India, May 2 -- I was in the US on the day the Pahalgam terror attack took place. I don't usually watch television news, but frustrated at being thousands of miles away when this carnage was unfolding back home, in a region that has also been my reporting beat for three decades, I scoured the hotel TV channels and newspapers for some attention given to the cold-blooded execution of 26 tourists who had been targeted for their faith.

If nothing else, the fact that US Vice President JD Vance was in India on the day the barbaric strike took place should have compelled the American media to show interest. After all, the terrorists had most likely timed their plan to Vance's arrival, borrowing from a 25-year-old playbook. In 2000, 36 Sikhs in ...