OPINION | Operation Sindoor: Why The Elite’s ‘Peace Sermons’ Reek Of Privilege And Denial
When India bleeds, the privileged preach restraint. But justice isn’t warmongering, it’s the price of sovereignty.
In the dead of night, as Indian jets roared across the sky in a precise, non-escalatory retaliation for the Pahalgam massacre, a different war was unfolding online, a war of narratives. As India mourned 26 lives, shot point-blank after being asked their religion, social media lit up with outrage, not at the killers, but at the country that dared to respond.
This isn’t new, every time India acts, from Balakot to Sindoor, a section of the privileged, urban elite dusts off its moral high horse to sermonise against retaliation. These are not voices for peace but are voices of comfort, cocooned in a safe distance from border realities, preaching peace at the cost of justice.
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Let’s be clear: Operation Sindoor was not warmongering. It was an act of calibrated precision. Nine terror camps were struck, not mosques, not hospitals, not civilian towns, as Pakistan and its propaganda machines would have the world believe. Rafales launched SCALP missiles, kamikaze drones hovered with surgical focus and India struck exactly where it needed to- Muridke, Bahawalpur, Kotli which are homes of Lashkar and Jaish, the homes of murderers.
And yet, ‘idealists’ on Instagram draw false equivalences between statecraft and genocide. A comparison between war and cancer treatments as if India should sit back and die slowly from the spread of Pakistan-sponsored terror. Where were these peace advocates when Pahalgam’s meadows were soaked in blood or when newlyweds were gunned down in front of their spouses?
Peace is not passive, peace is earned with deterrence, with defence and when necessary, with firepower. India’s doctrine is simple: maximum restraint, minimum tolerance. The message of Operation Sindoor is simple, you kill our civilians, we will eliminate your launchpads.
Let us also not forget the ecosystem that immediately parrots Pakistan’s lies. The disinformation war is in full swing, aided by foreign media, Chinese state outlets and tragically, by some of our own citizens. But India’s military hasn’t flinched and nor has its government and nor should its people.
There’s no room for empty neutrality anymore. What India did wasn’t warmongering but was clarity, calibrated force and a refusal to let terror hide behind diplomacy. If you truly care about peace, demand that Pakistan dismantles the terror industry it breeds with impunity. Don’t romanticise martyrdom while vilifying justice.
Operation Sindoor is a turning point not just in India’s defence posture, but in how it asserts its right to respond. No apologies, no false equivalences, just justice.
And to those who think justice is ‘ugly’, ask the widows of Pahalgam if silence was prettier.
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