“The Idea of Bharat – In the Line of Fire, In the Age of Hybrid Warfare”, India Facts, April 30, 2023:

‘Wars have ceased to become effective instruments to achieve political and military objectives. They are too expensive, unaffordable, and there is uncertainty about outcome. It is the civil society that can be subverted, divided and manipulated to hurt the interest of the nation’.

This comment by Ajit Doval, current National Security Advisor to the Government of India, in his address at the National Police Academy in Hyderabad in November 2021, set the cat among the pigeons.

There was outrage from several quarters where, in what seems to be now a terminally inconclusive debate, this was seen as an attempt by an increasingly authoritarian government to curb dissent (2).  That Article 19-2 of the Constitution of India permits reasonable restrictions on freedom of expression (3) and that ignoring the paradox of tolerance could mean the end of a tolerant society, was perhaps conveniently ignored by this legion of the outraged…..”

Read the full article at Indiafacts.org.in