India, May 24 -- Pahalgam attack is an inflexion point in our history that calls out for deep introspection; a moment in time to call a spade a spade; a time to make honest judgements about ourselves, call out the deficiencies in our society.

Operation Sindoor in which India levelled at least nine terror camps and inflicted discernible damage on prominent Pakistani air bases including its flagship air base of Nur Khan barely 10 km from Islamabad (confirmed by satellite imagery), was a courageous and befitting military response to the cowardly attack on predominantly Hindu tourists at Pahalgam on April 22; this decisive action demonstrated the superiority of our armed forces and their ability to strike deep into Pakistan at will.

However...