I don’t know the author of this email and I have no copyright. But I’m sure whoever she is, she will not mind me sharing her views which I wholeheartedly endorse. I have taken the liberty of editing the mail:

``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.
The day he died, the news channels were swept off their feet by the critical newsbreak about a cinestar being acquitted of TADA. `'Sanjay Dutt relieved by court'. 'Sirf Munna not a bhai' '13 saal ka vanvaas khatam' screamed the channels.
Then came forth the eulogies: 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.'
Etc. etc.
Among other news, Parliament was mad at the Indian crciket team; Greg Chappell said something; Shah Rukh Khan to replace Amitabh in KBC and blah blah. But most of the emphasis was on Sanjay Dutt's `phoenix-like’ comeback from the terrorist charges.
In the Dutt medley, there was one bit of news on BBC that startled me. It read `Hijbul Mujahideen'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 checking all Indian channels, but Sanjay Dutt continued to rule supreme. His arguments: `'I'm the sole bread earner for my family', 'I have a daughter who is studying in US' and so on.
Then the channels beamed trivia about 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 the Arms Act, was being transformed into a hero.
Sure, Sanjay Dutt has a daughter. Sure, he did not commit any terrorist activity. 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 Hijbul Mujahideen'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 Pitambare never said 'I have a daughter' before he took the decision to attack the terrorists in the darkest of nights. He never thought about his family and about him being the bread-earner.
But that mattered little to the channels which were too busy hyping up 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 for possession of arms had no meaning. They also concluded that his parents in heaven must be happy and proud of him.
Major Manish’s parents have to live the rest of their lives without their beloved son. His daughter won't ever see her beloved father again.
To my generation, Major Manish Pitambare is a big hero, someone who laid down his life without our asking him, just so that Sohel Faisal did not claim any more victims in his motherland.
Let’s hang our heads in shame that the news about the army major's death was given by a foreign TV channel!!!''