This piece offers a compelling and impassioned analysis of India’s current geopolitical predicament — victorious on the battlefield yet precariously placed in the battle for global perception. It astutely draws historical parallels with 1971, using the symbolic appointment of Atal Bihari Vajpayee by Indira Gandhi to argue for deploying India’s most articulate and internationally credible voices today: Shashi Tharoor and Asaduddin Owaisi.
The suggestion is not only strategic but also symbolic. Tharoor represents India’s elite globalist diplomacy and intellectual finesse, while Owaisi’s inclusion would jolt Pakistan’s narrative of Indian Muslim victimhood and highlight internal pluralism. It’s a bold, bipartisan move that could echo globally — if acted upon swiftly.
The piece is at its sharpest when dissecting Western hypocrisy — how the same media that underplays cross-border terrorism sensationalizes India’s calibrated responses. The anger is righteous, and the call to arms in the narrative war is timely. As wars move from trenches to television studios and from missiles to microphones, your framing that India's enemies have "Western accents" and platforms, while India clings to traditional diplomacy, rings painfully true.
If there’s a critique, it’s this: the path to uniting Tharoor and Owaisi on an international front, under Modi's aegis, is politically treacherous. But precisely because it's difficult, it’s worth attempting — and your argument makes that case powerfully.
