Operation Sindoor: The wives who were avenged

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The name “Operation Sindoor” is searing. In one word, it captures the unimaginable loss of the women whose husbands were killed in the 22 April 2025 Pahalgam terror attack.

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00:00The name Operation Sindur is searing. In one word, it captures the unimaginable loss of the women

00:05whose husbands were killed in the 22 April 2025 Behelgam terror attack. Sindur, the vermilion

00:10applied in the parting of the hair by married Hindu women, became a national metaphor for

00:15mourning as these women wiped theirs off, not in private grief, but amid a wave of collective

00:20outrage. In striking back with Operation Sindur, India reclaimed the dignity of its citizens,

00:25especially its women who bore the cost of peace with their partners' lives. Here are some of the

00:30women who lost their husbands in the terror attack. This is Himanshi Narwal, the young wife of Lieutenant

00:36Vinay Narwal, a 26-year-old Indian Navy officer from Haryana who was killed while on his honeymoon in

00:41Behelgam. The couple had married just a week before the attack, having tied the knot on April 16,

00:462025. This is Ashanya Dvivedi, the wife of Shubham Dvivedi, a tourist from Uttar Pradesh who was

00:52killed in the Behelgam attack. The couple had been married only two months earlier. Sheetal is the

00:58wife of Shailesh Kalathia, a banker from Surat Gujarat who was killed while on a family vacation to

01:03celebrate his birthday. Sheetal was at the meadow with her husband and their two children, a son and

01:08a daughter, with a terrorist truck. This is Sohini Adhikari, the wife of Bittan Adhikari, an IT

01:13professional from Kolkata who was killed in the Behelgam attack. Bittan had been working in the US and was

01:19back in India on vacation. The couple travelled to Kashmir along with their three-and-a-half-year-old

01:23son, Hridan. This is Kajal Ben Parmar. Her husband, Yatish Pai Parmar, ran a cello in Bhavanagar, Gujarat.

01:30He had come to Kashmir with family. This is Pragati Jagdale, the wife of Santosh Jagdale of

01:35Maharashtra, slain in the April 22 Pehalgaam massacre. Sheila Ramchandran from Kochi lost her husband,

01:41N. Ramchandran, 65 years old, in Pehalgaam. He was gunned down in front of his daughters and grandsons.

01:48Jennifer Nathaniel, 54 years old, is the wife of Sushil Nathaniel, a 58-year-old LIC branch manager

01:53from Indore, Madhya Pradesh. When terrorists confronted them, Sushil heroically urged his

01:58wife to hide and face the gunmen alone. Jaya Mishra is the wife of Manish Ranjan Mishra,

02:03a 42-year-old intelligence bureau officer who had taken his family to Kashmir for a holiday but was

02:08tragically shot dead by terrorists in front of his wife and kids in Pehalgaam. Each of these women

02:14endured a devastating loss on Pehalgaam's Paisaran Meadow. It was their Sindhu the Indian Armed Forces

02:19avenged on 7th May.

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