When in doubt, be patriotic.

This whole 'I am more patriotic than you' thing is now a rage because it is indeed so easy to do, and truth or facts or any other inconvenient issue is never allowed to come in the way.

Here's an example: The man posting this is the 'Chief of Culture and Performance' (whatever that means) of a company funded by Microsoft, Accel, etc.

1. The Hindu is right in being expedient with words in their headline. Modi or Obama would be called the same way. They are not being disrespectful at all by not using his rank. This is just how headlines are written. This is the same issue I have with people claiming that every time anyone uses the name 'Shivaji', it must be prefixed with 'Chhatrapati' and suffixed with 'Maharaj,' even when not doing so isn't showing disrespect, because it allows them to rage at someone without having anything reasonable to be angry about.
2. The term 'martyr' or 'shaheed' is to be avoided as per the military's own rules and regulations (which, nowadays, unfortunately, even military officers and people who ought to know better, including their own website and social media handle managers disregard merrily), and is indeed wrong English. A 'martyr' is someone who dies for their faith, typically religious faith. A professional soldier would be, or at least should be, insulted at being called merely a faithhead. That said, I can perhaps forgive the practice of this word in regard to soldiers because it has been used in this fashion in recent years and has now passed into daily usage. But to take objection for someone NOT using it is incorrect, if not downright silly.

But, as I said, reality has never stopped 'real' patriots from flailing against windmills and strawmen.

Indeed, what gets my goat isn't that he is so wrong so confidently from a position of such immense ignorance. What bothers me is the thousands (of perhaps equally educated, well-placed, privileged people who are on LinkedIn, know English, have access to the internet and computing devices, and are connected to him in some way) who agree with him wholeheartedly and the hundreds who commented on it telling him how they agree with him.

Really, rabid and unconditional patriotism must be the easiest emotion to instil in anyone. It asks so little of you. And offers so much to take the edge off all the frustration you have in your life outside of social media.

Perhaps, we should give patriotism a medal.