New Delhi, Feb. 29 -- As year-end 2023 looms, a transient lull in India's endemic election fever may permit the media a respite to focus on other matters of serious national concern. The voting citizen, given his or her preoccupation with pressing issues such as jobs, prices, health and social harmony, may not see national security, for example, as a priority issue. But she should, because paying cursory attention to security threats - internal as well as external - will only aggravate them, and divert the nation's attention and scarce resources away from development and social welfare. Former Army chief, General MM Naravane, in his forthcoming memoir, highlights this with his recall of a serious security issue warranting a cabinet decision...