PATRON OF ABUSE

Why does BJP put up with the verbal iniquities of Vijay Shah, the minister who insulted Col. Sofiya? It's his cachet among MP's tribals

- By Rahul Noronha

DEFENCE AND GEOPOLITICAL debates may saturate the space presently, but socially no one was in doubt that the post-Pahalgam landscape witnessed a rare degree of Hindu-Muslim solidarity. Of the organic, human sort. The April 22 massacre drew equal, unequivocal condemnation across communities. The Centre even parlayed it off into a wise piece of high-visibility symbolism: choosing two women officers, Colonel Sofiya Qureshi and Wg Cdr Vyomika Singh, to brief the media on Operation Sindoor. 'What's in a name?' is not a question anyone had to ask.

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