The Indians, on the other hand, were given these powerful and distinct messages.
India has officially ended strategic restraint : India will no longer seek permission. Decades of tolerating terrorism and waiting for global approval while sharing meaningless dossiers to Pakistan are over.
Domestic unity across politics and society is the new strategic weapon : Electoral wins and popularity define the executive power. Modi invoked this as a factor behind the success of his doctrine.
India's defence infrastructure is self-reliant and globally credible. Self-reliance will be the key to India's future battle readiness. Made-in-India weapons were battle-tested and succeeded.
Women-centred symbolism (Sindoor) : The nature of Islamist violence is that it singles out women to humiliate, rape and torture them. The symbolism of Sindoor as the source of power has become a nationalist sentiment - a cultural and civilizational marker now defended militarily.
PoK is no longer a diplomatic talking point - Modi clearly stated that future talks will only be about PoK and terrorism, not bilateral issues. When he says "talks about PoK", Modi meant how and when Pakistan will return it back.
Peace is no longer pursued passively : When he said that the path to peace goes via "Shakthi" or power, he asserted something important - that power will precede dialogue, not follow it.
India is redefining itself as a global anti-terror standard-setter, not a follower of UN processes or Western diplomacy.
One must understand that the United Nations was created for dialogue, peace and frameworks between Nations. The battle against terrorism is outside the purview of the UN. The Modi Doctrine clearly lays this out.
India has redrawn the global rules of engagement. By launching retaliatory strikes without waiting for UN approval, New Delhi has established a new template for sovereign self-defence one where nations reserve the right to strike first, across borders, when attacked by non-state actors.
Modi has heralded the emergence of a new global norm with Operation Sindoor : When terror crosses borders, sovereignty does too.
Modi shattered the charade of global diplomacy on terrorism. He bypassed international mediation because the world's hypocrisy on terror had become impossible to ignore.
You see, it wasn't an oversight or an action in haste.
For years, the West cloaked Pakistan's role in terror under strategic ambiguity. That ambiguity became a weapon used not against terrorists but against India.
Modi has now flipped the script. No more waiting rooms of diplomacy. No more tolerance for "good terrorist, bad terrorist" games.
India acted unilaterally, struck surgically and named and shamed Pakistan with battlefield precision and irrefutable proof.
This wasn't just a military maneuver, it was a geopolitical declaration : India will no longer outsource its security to a compromised global conscience.
Israel, a pioneer of hot pursuit and targeted assassinations, will see Modi's Doctrine as the next evolution in counter-terror warfare.
India hasn't just acted it has authored a new doctrine of unapologetic, cross-border retaliation. One that terror-hit nations across the world will now invoke as precedent, not aberration.
The message is clear : The era of patience with terror sanctuaries is over. From this point on, terrorism will not be managed, it will be dismantled at source. No explanations. No excuses. No apologies.
And with this, for the first time in the last 1,000 years, someone outside of the Western world has set the direction of the global geopolitical framework. And it may very well be the first that backs humanity in all its honesty.
......Concluded.
Courtesy. Drishtikone.
My take
This is what happens when utterly crass people are elected to the high office!
Tailpiece.
Got up at our usual time, the chores and we opened up the house for the day.
Went for my walk.
The maid had come for work at her usual time.
Lekha had gone out to town to do a variety of work.
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