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> > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: N Sekar <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 10:19 AM > Subject: From NDTV website -- We are a Nation so indifferent to our > patriots, we must hang our heads in shame > To: Kerala Iyer <[email protected]>, Narayanaswamy Sekar < > [email protected]>, Suryanarayana Ambadipudi <[email protected]>, > Rangarajan T.N.C. <[email protected]>, Chittanandam V. R. < > [email protected]>, Mathangi K. Kumar <[email protected]>, > Mani APS <[email protected]> > > > Opinion: Sarabjit Singh, Kulbhushan Jadhav And A Dhurandhar Question > [image: img] <https://www.ndtv.com/authors/aditya-raj-kaul-8745> > Aditya Raj Kaul <https://www.ndtv.com/authors/aditya-raj-kaul-8745> > > - Opinion <https://www.ndtv.com/opinion>, > - Updated: > Mar 27, 2026 10:47 am IST > - Published OnMar 27, 2026 09:15 am IST > - Last Updated OnMar 27, 2026 10:47 am IST > > <https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=ndtv> > Share > > - Twitter > - WhatsApp > - Facebook > - Reddit > - Email > > <?subject=Opinion:%20Sarabjit%20Singh,%20Kulbhushan%20Jadhav%20And%20A%20Dhurandhar%20Question&body=Check%20out%20this%20link%20https://www.ndtv.com/opinion/sarabjit-singh-kulbhushan-jadhav-and-a-dhurandhar-question-11272522> > > [image: Opinion: Sarabjit Singh, Kulbhushan Jadhav And A Dhurandhar > Question] > > On the night of May 2, 2013, I stood outside a government apartment near > India Gate in New Delhi, close to midnight. Inside, Dalbir Kaur was waiting > for the one phone call she had dreaded for years. > > Her brother, Sarabjit Singh, had been brutally attacked by fellow inmates > inside Pakistan's Kot Lakhpat Jail. He was in the ICU, fighting for his > life. > > For Pakistan, Sarabjit was a convicted Indian spy - an operative allegedly > linked to India's Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW). For India, he was a > farmer from Bhikhiwind in Punjab, a man who had mistakenly crossed the > border and been swallowed by a hostile system. Between those two competing > narratives stood one woman who refused to surrender: his sister, Dalbir > Kaur. > > For years, she had carried her brother's cause almost single-handedly, > turning personal grief into a national campaign, pleading with governments, > knocking on doors, and refusing to let Sarabjit become just another > forgotten Indian in a foreign prison. > > > <https://vdo.ai/contact?utm_medium=video&utm_term=ndtv.com&utm_source=vdoai_logo> > > LATEST > > Karnataka Professor Proposes To Student In Front Of Class, B > > <https://www.ndtv.com/karnataka-news/karnataka-professor-proposes-to-student-in-front-of-class-beaten-on-campus-sri-siddhartha-medical-college-11269136?utm_campaign=v-ndtv&utm_medium=ticker&utm_source=vdoai_ticker> > > Iran Mobilises 1 Million Fighters For Possible US Ground Inv > > <https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-israel-iran-war-live-news-mobilises-over-1-million-fighters-for-possible-ground-war-with-us-report-11271396?utm_campaign=v-ndtv&utm_medium=ticker&utm_source=vdoai_ticker> > > "10 Big Boats Of Oil": Trump Reveals Details Of Mystery Gift > > <https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/iran-war-news-live-10-big-boats-of-oil-trump-reveals-details-of-mystery-gift-from-iran-11271096?utm_campaign=v-ndtv&utm_medium=ticker&utm_source=vdoai_ticker> > > Israeli Forces Burn Gaza Toddler With Cigarettes, Drive Nail > > <https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/israeli-forces-burn-gaza-toddler-with-cigarettes-drive-nail-into-his-leg-11271572?utm_campaign=v-ndtv&utm_medium=ticker&utm_source=vdoai_ticker> > > Rashmika And Vijay Celebrate 1-Month 'Anniversary' With A 'F > > <https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/vijay-deverakonda-celebrates-one-month-anniversary-with-rashmika-mandanna-with-a-forever-post-11269899?utm_campaign=v-ndtv&utm_medium=ticker&utm_source=vdoai_ticker> > > "Talks Going Well": Trump Extends Pause On Iran Power Plant > > <https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/iran-war-live-news-trump-pauses-strikes-on-energy-plants-in-iran-for-10-days-11271770?utm_campaign=v-ndtv&utm_medium=ticker&utm_source=vdoai_ticker> > > 'Where Were You When Iranians Were Dying?': Mandana Karimi S > > <https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/where-were-you-when-iranians-were-dying-mandana-karimi-slams-boman-iranis-trump-roast-11268557?utm_campaign=v-ndtv&utm_medium=ticker&utm_source=vdoai_ticker> > > Iran Claims It Shot Down American F-18 Jet, Then A US Fact-C > > <https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/iran-war-news-iran-claims-it-shotdown-american-f-18-jet-then-a-us-fact-check-11267637?utm_campaign=v-ndtv&utm_medium=ticker&utm_source=vdoai_ticker> > > On Camera, Man Thrashes 28-Year-Old Wife, Runs SUV Over Her > > <https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/on-camera-man-thrashes-28-year-old-wife-runs-suv-over-her-in-karnataka-11270346?utm_campaign=v-ndtv&utm_medium=ticker&utm_source=vdoai_ticker> > > LuLu Group Chairman Briefs PM On Uninterrupted Food Supplies > > <https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/lulu-group-chairman-yusuffali-ma-briefs-pm-narendra-modi-on-uninterrupted-food-supplies-to-gulf-region-11270125?utm_campaign=v-ndtv&utm_medium=ticker&utm_source=vdoai_ticker> > > New Income Tax Law From April 1: Meal Card, ITR, PAN Changes > > <https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/new-income-tax-law-from-april-1-meal-card-itr-hra-pan-changes-you-must-know-11267674?utm_campaign=v-ndtv&utm_medium=ticker&utm_source=vdoai_ticker> > > 'White Plague': One Of Humanity's Deadliest Killers Resurgin > > <https://www.ndtv.com/feature/white-plague-one-of-humanitys-deadliest-killers-resurging-in-us-11270554?utm_campaign=v-ndtv&utm_medium=ticker&utm_source=vdoai_ticker> > > RCB's Name To Be Changed After Rs 16,700 Crore Sale? 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Ananya > > <https://sports.ndtv.com/ipl-2026/rcbs-name-to-be-changed-after-rs-16-700-crore-sale-ahead-of-ipl-2026-ananya-birla-answers-11267186?utm_campaign=v-ndtv&utm_medium=ticker&utm_source=vdoai_ticker> > > That night, I was barely a month into my first job as a television > reporter. Young, inexperienced, and still learning what it meant to stand > witness to another family's pain. But nothing had prepared me for the > helplessness of watching a sister wage a lonely, exhausting battle for > justice while the system moved at its own cold pace. > > Hours earlier, when news of the attack had first broken on national > television, I had reacted instinctively-less as a journalist and more as an > angry Indian. In frustration, I wrote on social media: > > "The attack on Sarabjit Singh is a brutal reminder of our current soft > policy towards Pakistan. Will we end up as mute spectators? Really?" > > Late into the night, the inevitable happened. > > Sarabjit Singh was officially declared dead. > > Within minutes, television crews from across India and the international > press had descended on the government quarter. Camera lights pierced the > darkness. Microphones were thrust forward. But inside that house, none of > it mattered. A sister had just lost the brother she had fought for, pleaded > for, and waited for year after year without ever getting to bring him home > alive. > > Indian agencies later identified Amir Sarfaraz Tamba, a recruit of the > banned terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, as one of the accused behind > Sarabjit's killing. > > By the end of the day, Sarabjit's body had returned to India. His last > rites were performed in his village. The government announced compensation. > Statements were issued. Headlines were written. And, as so often happens in > this country, the story was declared over. > > Or at least, it was over for everyone else. > > The nation moved on. > > Dalbir Kaur never truly could. She carried that wound until her own death > in June 2022. > > Even today, I do not know with certainty whether Sarabjit Singh was a spy > or a farmer who crossed the border by mistake. History may continue to > debate that question. But what I do know is this: Sarabjit's story broke > something inside me. > > Because Sarabjit was never just one man. > > He came to represent a painful truth India has lived with for decades - > that many Indians have suffered silent, brutal ends across the border while > their families grieve in quiet dignity and the rest of us slowly forget. > Some die unnamed. Some disappear into prison cells. Some are reduced to > files, denials, and diplomatic caution. > > And some are still waiting. > > One of them is Kulbhushan Jadhav. > > Jadhav was kidnapped by Pakistan's ISI through a mercenary group in Iran's > Baluchistan and deliberately as part of a conspiracy accused to be a spy. > His family, if one can call it fortune, at least got to see him once > through a glass barrier inside a Pakistani prison. Even that meeting felt > less like humanity and more like cruelty staged as a procedure. He remains > incarcerated, sentenced to death, his fate still trapped somewhere between > diplomacy and indifference. > > Years later, sitting in a cinema hall watching Dhurandhar: The Revenge, I > did not expect to be taken back to that night outside India Gate. > > But in the film's closing moments, when Ranveer Singh's character Jaskirat > returns to his village in Punjab, something shifted inside me. The fiction > on screen collapsed into memory. Suddenly, I wasn't just watching a film > anymore. I was thinking of Sarabjit Singh. Of Kulbhushan Jadhav. Of the > many Indians whose stories never become films, whose sacrifices never make > it into patriotic montages, and whose endings are rarely heroic. > > Ranveer Singh's portrayal of an Indian spy in Dhurandhar feels, in many > ways, like a tribute, not merely to the cinematic idea of espionage, but to > the real men and women who serve India in silence. > > They work in shadows. They disappear into hostile territory. They carry > secrets they can never speak aloud. And if they fall, many do so without > recognition, without public mourning, without even the dignity of a final > salute. > > No medals. No farewell. No closure. > > Such is often the life of a spy or an agent sent into enemy territory for > a country that may never be able to publicly claim him. > > And perhaps that is why some stories never really leave you. Because long > after the cameras are gone, the headlines fade, and the nation moves on, > the faces remain. > > A sister waiting at midnight. > > A brother dying across the border. > > And a country still learning how to remember its forgotten sons. > > Sometime in 2022, I interviewed former R&AW chief Vikram Sood for a > documentary on the unknown gunmen in Pakistan. During that interview, he > said something that has stayed with me ever since: > > "Intelligence agencies and governments who want to be assertive must have > long memories." > > That one sentence says more about statecraft than a hundred speeches ever > could. > > Because while Kulbhushan Jadhav still waits for his destiny to be written, > Amir Sarfaraz Tamba the man accused in Sarabjit Singh's killing, was > himself gunned down in Lahore in April 2024 by unidentified assailants who > arrived on a motorcycle. > > The unknown gunmen will remain a mystery. > > As will many of the Indians who continue to work in covert operations to > safeguard this country. Men and women for whom the nation comes above > comfort, recognition, family, and sometimes even life itself. > > Fittingly, Dhurandhar: The Revenge ends with the words: "Balidan Param > Dharma" - Sacrifice is the highest duty. > > That is why Dhurandhar is not just a film. > > It is, in many ways, the echo of every mother, sister, and wife who has > quietly sacrificed a loved one for the nation. It is a reminder of every > life lived in secrecy, every mission buried in silence, every patriot whose > name cannot be spoken aloud. > > The real question is not whether India can produce more such stories on > screen. > > The real question is this: Will India have the long memory to remember > those who disappeared into the shadows for her? > > (*Aditya Raj Kaul is a Senior Executive Editor, National Security & > Strategic Affairs, NDTV*) > > Disclaimer: These are the personal opinions of the author > <https://twitter.com/ndtv> <https://www.youtube.com/user/ndtv> > <https://www.whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va4lixw7z4kcvZI9JM12> > <https://www.instagram.com/ndtv/> <https://www.facebook.com/ndtv> > Related News > > - When Ranveer Singh Opened Up To NDTV On His Casting Couch Nightmare: > 'He Said, Just Let Me Touch It' > > <https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/when-ranveer-singh-opened-up-to-ndtv-on-his-casting-couch-nightmare-he-said-just-let-me-touch-it-11272838> > - Priyadarshan Credits Aditya Dhar's 'Guts' For *Dhurandhar 2* Success: > "He Did Things Better Than Me" > > <https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/priyadarshan-credits-aditya-dhars-guts-for-dhurandhar-2-success-he-did-things-better-than-me-11272776> > - Bollywood's Dawood Ibrahim, Stuck In A 40-Year-Old Image, Finally > Ages In *Dhurandhar 2* > > <https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/bollywoods-dawood-ibrahim-stuck-in-a-40-year-old-image-finally-ages-in-dhurandhar-2-11269552> > > Trending News <https://www.ndtv.com/trends> > > - Excise Duty On Petrol Cut To Rs 3, Diesel To Zero: Will Fuel Prices > Reduce? 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