{"id":297800,"date":"2025-05-14T19:43:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=297800"},"modified":"2025-05-15T00:00:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:30:24","slug":"ceasefire-announcement-triggered-attacks-on-foreign-secretary-vikram-misri-daughter-shows-timeline-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/ceasefire-announcement-triggered-attacks-on-foreign-secretary-vikram-misri-daughter-shows-timeline-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceasefire announcement triggered attacks on foreign secretary Vikram Misri, daughter, shows timeline analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just as tensions between India and Pakistan showed signs of easing out around May 10, Indian Right-wing trolls, already high on josh<\/em> from the pitched keyboard battles they had been fighting, picked up a new enemy: Foreign secretary Vikram Misri and his family. His supposed fault: He made the announcement that India and Pakistan had reached an understanding of ceasefire after four days of intense cross-border drone and missile strikes. Things came to such a passe that the seasoned diplomat had to make his X handle private.<\/p>\n

No one\u00a0from the BJP camp or the Union government, including external affairs minister S Jaishankar, has so far publicly condemned the targeted attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the launch of Operation Sindoor on May 7, Misri, a 1989-batch officer of the Indian foreign service, addressed four press conferences, some singularly, and some jointly with armed force officials. It is through these briefings that a nation on tenterhooks kept itself abreast of the latest updates about the escalating conflict. What stood out during these sessions were the composure and confidence with which he articulated India’s position on various military, diplomatic and strategic matters.<\/p>\n

Misri’s diplomatic acumen and clarity of thought were on display when in the May 7 press briefing<\/a>, for example, he used the words ‘measured, non-escalatory, proportionate, and responsible’, describing the nature of Operation Sindoor. Again, in the May 10 presser, he decimated Pakistan’s efforts to discredit the Indian government by noting that it might be a surprise to a Pakistani to see citizens criticising their own government.\u00a0“That is the hallmark of an open and functioning democracy. Pakistan\u2019s unfamiliarity with that should be unsurprising,\u201d he observed<\/a>, with a hint of a smile on his face.<\/p>\n

One understands that such dignified professionalism in the face of adversities comes from experiences gathered during a long and distinguished career<\/a>. Misri, who took charge as foreign secretary on July 15, 2024, had his early postings on the Pakistan desk of the Union ministry of external affairs and on the staff of two former foreign ministers, I K Gujral and Pranab Mukherjee. He also served as private secretary to three Prime Ministers, I K Gujral, Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi. His international assignments include postings in Brussels, Tunis, Islamabad and Washington D.C. He was the deputy high commissioner in Sri Lanka, consul general in Munich, ambassador to Spain, Myanmar and China. From January 2022 to June 2024, he served as deputy national security adviser (strategic affairs) before becoming India’s 35th foreign secretary.<\/p>\n

One also understands that such distinctions matter little to the Right-wing trolls. The aplomb and equanimity maintained throughout by Misri did not, perhaps, impress the zealots whose hyper-nationalism often finds expression in memes where leaders breathe fire from laser eyes. And then, on May 10, Misri appeared in a press briefing to announce that India and Pakistan had agreed to stop all firing<\/a> and military action. This is when the gloves came off and they decided to target Misri, as the timeline analysis later in this article will show.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more horrifying, though perhaps predictable, was that the trolls targeted and doxxed his daughter, Didon, a lawyer based in the UK, for her humanitarian work for Rohingya Muslims and her occasional involvement with The Wire<\/em> as a columnist. Her contact information was leaked online, and the Misris were labeled as gaddars<\/em> or traitors.<\/p>\n

The trolling and the targeted harassment got so toxic that the foreign secretary had to lock his X handle, restricting public view.<\/p>\n

Tracing the Timeline of the Harassment<\/h4>\n

Alt News traced the online harassment of Didon to two primary accounts, one of which has since been withheld. X user @JayRNair was the first to dox her, back in December 2024, after Misri stated<\/a> that India did not endorse former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s criticism of the interim government in Bangladesh. The user shared a screenshot of the news report of the statement alongside Didon’s history of humanitarian work. The user also shared a screenshot of Didon’s profile on her company website that clearly showed her phone number. ‘What is most shocking is when you realize what his daughter does. She gave legal assistance to Rohingyas, now in London’, read the tweet.<\/p>\n

This account has now been disabled.<\/p>\n

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The aforementioned tweet was reshared a few times since the launch of Operation Sindoor on May 7. There was one quote-tweet on May 8<\/a> and one more on May 9<\/a>. However, we noticed that the tweet started getting more traction on the intervening night of May 10 and 11.<\/p>\n

How did this happen? The second account that has consistently targeted Didon Misri is a user name Indian Kissinger (@kissingerspeaks). We also found two tweets from January and April 2025 that targeted Didon through subtle dog whistles.<\/p>\n