Shekhar Gupta: Insecurity within

NDA's internal security score now weaker than UPA's; may hit Modi's momentum despite strong messages

So how exactly did the Indian state respond to internal security setbacks when there was no Twitter? Almost exactly as it does now when there is Twitter. 

The NDA playbook is in fact quite similar to the UPA’s. Except now it begins with the launch of some familiar verbal missiles: “Cowardly”, “treacherous”, “anti-national” and of course that weapon of mass destruction for all evil that Dr Manmohan Singh had made notorious, “dastardly”. After the tweeted outrage come high-level meetings, promises that soldiers’ sacrifices won’t go in vain and, if it is too embarrassing a setback, like this week’s in Bastar,