In this future-draped present, many Indians believed, Pakistan was a fly that could be swatted when it buzzed too loudly in India’s ear. Many Indians sprayed an air of misplaced superiority on themselves like cheap perfume and strutted around like peacocks. By trashing Pakistan, bad-mouthing Pakistan, threatening Pakistan, many Indians perhaps subconsciously tried to validate their deeply-ingrained delusions. What Modi said, what media said, it was all true, true, true…And then, bam! People rubbed their eyes in Delhi, Mumbai, Haryana, Pune, Hyderabad and Bangalore and peered hard into the real world outside the bubble.

Source: The Express Tribune March 03, 2019 04:30 UTC