Your editorial (Responding to Pulwama, 18 February) is an excellent piece of advice to the government — and the people of India — for taking a “determined but cautious” response to the extremely tragic happening at Pulwama. National sentiment, against Pakistan, is right now at a high fever pitch — and rightly so — and the ground is ripe for a possible wrong initiative by the government, which the nation might regret later. Age-old wisdom dictates that decisions taken in anger are often wrong and irrational.
All the steps taken so far are correct. The withdrawal of the most favoured nation