Who is Behind the Online Trolls?

• India and Pakistan showed no hesitation in announcing a ceasefire, but who will broker peace for the war raging within the country?
• As a nation, we seem to have lost our inner compass, and people are willing to start trolling at the drop of a hat.
• Post Pahalgam, the largest number of trolls were directed at Indian Muslims, spurred on by increasing dollops of communal rhetoric that have been let loose across our TV channels.

The Anti-Muslim Sentiment

Madhya Pradesh’s Tribal Welfare Minister Vijay Shah did not blink an eyelid when he described brave heart Colonel Sofiya Qureshi as a “terrorist’s sister”.

Shah, in his scurrilous speech, went on to claim that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had sent “a sister from their (the terrorists’) community” in an Indian Air Force aircraft to avenge the victims.”

How could a man holding a constitutional post for the last decade not realise that Qureshi’s briefing was at the behest of the government?

The Trolling of Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri

• Why a government bureaucrat should be on the firing line for a decision taken by the government defies imagination.
• Misri was forced to lock his X account, but it is time government agencies investigate the identity of these trolls and at whose behest they are sending out these poisonous darts.
• Why has no one from the government, including external affairs minister S.