It is customary to claim that the Indian mind has been influenced by Modi's Hindutva, explaining why the average Indian views Pakistan as the enemy. But this puts the cart before the horse.

The Modi government enjoys unlimited power for an unprecedented tenure, largely due to a dark psychological secret. While the country hid behind fictions of secularism and socialism during its formative phase, modern India allowed its identity to be informed by a blistering, obsessive hatred of its western neighbour. Some dislike is earned, certainly, but most is deeply inculcated for no reason.

If you want to get to the roots of this hatred and see how deep it goes, just look at how the Indian state was adamant to deny a nascent Pakistani state its due share of financial resources. Its historians tel

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