In other words, in the Congress's version of events, while the families of the jawans were mourning their dead, the Prime Minister had calmly carried on with a film shoot for a foreign television channel, smiling and preening for the cameras as if this were just another day. It suggested that Modi had either been uncaring of or oblivious to what had happened in Pulwama in its immediate aftermath.

Now this is pretty damning for the leader of a party which projects itself as the sole upholder of 24-carat nationalism. A leader, who, incidentally, rushed off to Seoul in South Korea to receive a “peace prize”, even as violent mobs were attacking innocent Kashmiris in the wake of the Pulwama atrocity.