Shekhar Gupta: Long march to peace with Pakistan

India needs to invest in its military to scare Pakistan to peace and at the same time get Indians to understand the realities of war, writes Shekhar Gupta

Kitney aadmi thhey (how many enemies were there), asked Gabbar Singh, the most feared yet adored villain of Hindi cinema, mocking his punch-drunk hitmen just back from a skirmish in Ramesh Sippy’s 1975 classic Sholay.

Now, why am I using this in the context of last we­ek’s 90-hour India-Pakistan “war”, or describing the nuttiness into which we have descended post-27 Fe­b­ruary, as ‘Gabbarisation’ of our politico-strategic discourse.

It is as if only three questions now remain: Did the bombs/missiles hit the Jaish facility or not? If they did, how many did they kill (hence, kitney aadmi thhey)? And the third: