India, Feb. 19 -- The darkness and the void that engulfed the families of the martyred soldiers after the terror attack in Pulwama won't come to us naturally - there's no way we could possibly understand the totality of that misery. I could only hope that no one ever experiences that, again.

But we are angry and frustrated. It's only natural we feel that way.

Anger is just a spontaneous reaction, it's not necessarily a rational derivative of the situation. It's a feeling. Rationalism never drives our action in society. Feelings do. Stories create the feelings - whether it's the story of nationalism, story of liberty, story of religion - we need a story to invoke our feelings and thus drive our action.

Freedom fighters who sacrificed th...