By the time you read this news, the body of Major Manish Pitambare, who 

was shot dead at Anantnag, would have been cremated with full military 

honors.

On Tuesday, this news swept across all the news channels ‘Sanjay Dutt 

relieved by court’. ‘Sirf Munna not a bhai’ ‘13 saal ka vanvaas khatam’  

’although found guilty for possession of armory, Sanjay can breath sigh 

of relief as all the TADA charges against him are withdrawn’ Then many 

personalities like Salman Khan said ‘He is a good person. We knew he 

will come out clean’.  Mr Big B said “Dutt’s family and our family have 

relations for years he’s a good kid. He is like elder brother to 

Abhishek”. His sister Priya Dutt said “we can sleep well tonight. It ’s a 

great relief”

In other news, Parliament was mad at Indian team for performing bad; 

Greg Chappell said something; Shah Rukh Khan replaces Amitabh in KBC and 

other such stuff. But most of the emphasis was given on Sanjay Dutt’s 

”phoenix like” comeback from the ashes of terrorist charges. Surfing 

through the channels, one news on BBC startled me. It read “Hisbul 

Mujahidin’s most wanted terrorist ‘Sohel Faisal’ killed in Anantnag , India . 

Indian Major leading the operation lost his life in the process. Four 

others are injured.

It was past midnight, I started visiting the stupid Indian channels, 

but Sanjay Dutt was still ruling. They were telling how Sanjay pleaded to 

the court saying ‘I’m the sole bread earner for my family’, ‘I have a 

daughter who is studying in US’ and so on. Then they showed how Sanjay 

was not wearing his lucky blue shirt while he was hearing the verdict 

and also how he went to every temple and prayed for the last few months. 

A suspect in Mumbai bomb blasts, convicted under armory act…was being 

transformed into a hero.

Sure Sanjay Dutt has a daughter; Sure he did not do any terrorist 

activity. Possessing an AK47 is considered too elementary in terrorist 

community and also one who possesses an AK47 has a right to possess a pistol 

so that again is not such a big crime; Sure Sanjay Dutt went to all the 

temples; Sure he did a lot of Gandhigiri but then………..

Major Manish H Pitambare got the information from his sources about the 

terrorists’ whereabouts. Wasting no time he attacked the camp, killed 

Hisbul Mujahidin’s supremo and in the process lost his life to the 

bullets fired from an AK47. He is survived by a wife and daughter (just like 

Sanjay Dutt) who’s only 18 months old.

Major Manish never said ‘I have a daughter’ before he took the decision 

to attack the terrorists in the darkest of nights. He never thought 

about having a family and he being the bread earner. No news channel 

covered this since they were too busy hyping a former drug addict, a suspect 

who’s linked to bomb blasts which killed hundreds. Their aim was to 

show how he defied the TADA charges and they were so successful that his 

conviction in possession of armory had no meaning. They also concluded 

that his parents in heaven must be happy and proud of him.

Parents of Major Manish are still living and they have to live rest of 

their lives without their beloved son. His daughter won’t ever see her 

daddy again. Finally Major Manish, to my generation is a greater hero, 

someone who laid his life in the name of this great nation.

So guys, u knows which news to give importance, as it is a shame for us since this Army Major’s death news was given by a foreign TV channel!!!