New Delhi, May 12 -- I understand people mourning other people's loss, whether individual or collective. Be it a loss of a known one or a stranger. Be it life, wealth, identity, relationships or cultural belonging. What I struggle to comprehend is how the same people can applaud acts of killing, especially when such state violence is glamorised and framed as justice.

It's not as though the consequences of such pursuits have not been evident in the past. History, it seems, has repeatedly borne witness to these cycles of violence, with humanity seemingly condemned to repeat the same errors without learning from them. Whether in the Israeli-Palestinian, US-Afghanistan, or Ukraine-Russia conflict, it has always been this perpetual loop in wh...