The situation was being stabilized. Approximately one hundred alleged insurgents and their associates were being shot dead every day. The point was to have the will to succeed. If fifty thousand deaths were required, there would be fifty thousand deaths. The battle would not be lost while the will was there and he, General Kachhwaha, was the embodiment of that will. Therefore the battle was not being lost. It was being won.

— Shalimar the Clown de Salman Rushdie