IFP Editorial, April 17 -- A video of a petite young Manipuri girl in jeans firing a gun captured he imagination of many. Sadly, the chatter was not of a girl firing away and exorcising the dominance of man in the world of guns but of legality and of the families with powerful political connections running roughshod over the rule of law.

Recently, a video of a petite young Manipuri girl in jeans firing a gun went viral in the social media and fired up the chatter. Even the image of Hollywood star Angelina Jolie firing away in the Tomb Raider series was conjured up by social media enthusiasts. The frenzy was such that Covid 19 numbers surging past the 2 lakh mark every day, thousands of sadhus taking a dip in the Holy Ganga flouting Covid...