Severing heads of the dead enemy soldiers? I thought it was so
medieval. People who did that to the late Lance Naik Hemraj
Singh's body must be severely punished. Business Standard's
leader on January 15 2013: "News TV's martial music drowns out
its responsibilities...It should go without saying that the
media has a role in informing and educating a citizenry about
the issues of the day, providing background, context and holding
the powerful to account. A case study in how not to go about
this is currently being provided by the electronic media in its
coverage of recent raids and counter-raids on the Line of
Control in Jammu and Kashmir, in which two Indian soldiers have
been killed, and one allegedly subjected to post-mortem
mutilation. Instead of questioning the narrative, news
television and some print outlets have instead blatantly beaten
the drums of confrontation, hyping even relatively calm
statements by the army chief into belligerent displays of
national machismo." On December 7 1760, just before the