Media coverage
In the lead-up to Operation Sindoor, during its conduct and aftermath, the media should have shown — and even now — more restraint, responsibility and caution. ‘What-if’ scenarios should not be explored. Details about the weapons systems should not be exposed. What Operation Sindoor has done is enough and satisfactory. We do not need to go in for an overkill and think of ‘destroying the enemy’.
The fact is that Pakistan is a state split between the political leadership, the military and the terrorist apparatus. Operation Sindoor has taught Pakistan a hard lesson. Added to this is the Indian Prime Minister’s line that has outlined India’s future response.
S. Kamat,
Mysuru
Online toxicity
It is shocking and disheartening that online trolls seem to spare no one. Such behaviour not only reflects the toxic side of online discourse but also endangers the very idea of free and peaceful expression in our democracy.
Such toxic behaviour should not be normalised or ignored. It is time that the authorities take stringent action against such merchants of hate who encourage online harassment.
Md. Sabir Hussain,
Arrah, Bihar
Court’s line
The line of the Supreme Court, that if two adults have a long-standing live-in relationship one can presume an implied consent of the parties in such a relationship, may not be right. The right conclusion would be that the relationship had blossomed into a marriage. Otherwise the relationship may degenerate into a licentiousness with hardly any protection to the woman and dignity to such a relationship. This is the blind spot in the Court’s line. It must be revisited with greater scrutiny.
N.G.R. Prasad,
Chennai
Published – May 14, 2025 12:24 am IST