Mumbai, March 22 -- On 1 March, as Indian Air Force pilot Abhinandan Varthaman was making his way across the border after being released by Pakistan, Om Prakash Sharma, a BJP MLA from Delhi, shared two posters on Facebook. The images, one with a jet leaving a tiranga-colored trail of smoke in its wake and the other doused in saffron, featured Varthaman alongside the smiling faces of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President Amit Shah and-in a subordinate position-Sharma himself. The two days that Varthaman had spent in Pakistan had been punctuated by a series of videos of him in custody, which rapidly went viral, searing his composed bravery-as well as his handlebar moustache-into the minds of millions of Indians. Sharma's posters, which ...