I respect your disagreement, and in some cases perhaps yes - letting the barking dogs bark and ignoring them might be the best policy.

But I feel that in the given the context, both external and internal in India, Indian government had to react rather than let silence be assumed to be an admission of guilt. That would have been worse since it frees people to draw their own conclusions.

Anyway, I'm just an observer. This is a royal mess and hope it gets resolved quickly, though I doubt it.

> Silence and carry on is what false accusations deserve.

Only if there is a robust justice system which will protect you from the effects of false accusation. International law and a lot of countries not as developed as the west have no such systems.

People in less developed nations don't have that luxury.