There should be no surprise that India carried out a surgical strike on Pakistan on Wednesday. It is in sync with the mood in the country post the Uri attack and the context in which Narendra Modi became PM, whereby he can’t be seen as another Manmohan Singh lest it makes Arun Shourie’s statement—that the BJP is not that different from the Congress—ring true. Even in his recent Kozhikode address, the PM did speak about—albeit elliptically—this strong response to Pakistan when he said their actions wouldn’t go unpunished. Sushma Swaraj’s speech at the UNGA also had a lot of subtext: she said India had clearly reached the end of its patience. Calling a press conference immediately, with the MEA on board too, was a deft act of controlling the narrative of the event. In naval terms, we would congratulate this with a ‘Bravo Zulu’ signal.