No investigation, no verification, only accusation, then escalation.
Syed Jalal Hussain
Irtaza Abbas Turi was seven years old. He had no knowledge of geopolitics, no stake in borders, no understanding of the hate that precedes a missile. He carried no weapon. He posed no threat. Yet his body was claimed by an airstrike, transformed into a symbol, proof in a conflict crafted for spectacle. That’s the logic of manufactured war: when truth is inconvenient, terror becomes a tool. And children like Irtaza become collateral.
No evidence linked Pakistan to the Pahalgam incident. No investigation, no verification, only accusation, then escalation. The strike followed like clockwork. And from behind the smoke rose a familiar figure, haunting South Asia for over two decades. The Butcher of Gujarat, once again at the helm, exploiting tragedy for spectacle.
Understanding Narendra Modi’s India means confronting a worldview where violence is theatre and war a tool of narrative. Strikes are staged, enemies constructed, and deaths turned into spectacle. In this landscape, restraint signals weakness; cruelty performs strength.
History warns us that fascism rarely begins with tanks. It begins with language: with invented enemies, with heroic myths, with the framing of violence as virtue.
There is nothing novel about what Modi is doing. It is the oldest formula in authoritarian politics: manufacture a threat, unleash disproportionate force, and demand loyalty in the name of national pride. It is a script perfected by Israel, where state violence is framed as self-defense, civilian deaths are recast as collateral, and global silence is treated as consent. Each strike is less about deterrence and more about domination, over headlines, over history, over perception. And the timing? Always just before the polls.
The latest round of attacks arrived on the eve of another Indian election. As criticism builds, the formula is reactivated: inflame nationalism, criminalise dissent, and externalise failure. The enemy need not be real. It only needs to be useful. Pakistan. Muslims. Kashmir. The usual trinity.
Modi is the product of an ideology far older and darker than himself. RSS, of which he is a lifelong disciple, is a paramilitary organisation rooted in the admiration of Hitler’s race theories and Mussolini’s fascist aesthetics. It dreams of Akhand Bharat, a Greater India purged of minorities, where pluralism is weakness and violence is purification.
