Nirupama Rao, whom I have held in regard for several decades, is seriously wrong on a couple of scores about why Pakistan succeeded in taking control of the narrative during Operation Sindoor. However, she does make some good points in her piece. It needs to be stated, with requisite — and imperative — eclaircissement, that, in its hallmark style, our neighbour was offering absurd falsehoods as fact; and that the better part of the world, predictably, was lapping it up. Rao unfairly accuses the Indian media of “hypernationalism” and levels a gamut of other allegations against it, while, in reality,...