> I'd add that the citizens of both countries legitimately despise each other
I've been to towns on both sides throughout the years and this isn't the case everywhere. Though, disagreements do run deep, as contrasting narratives are in fact mainstream talking points.
Hopefully, in my lifetime, the countries resolve their differences & cast aside the hateful fringe like they should.
> negotiating borders
That's a very different thing to "decolonisation".
India is 1.6bn people and even if 7% disagree, that's a 100mn people (and the number is far greater than 7%). Not everyone is a right-wing nationalist, though, the ruling parties and the now-compromised MSMs are.
I've been to towns on both sides throughout the years and this isn't the case everywhere. Though, disagreements do run deep, as contrasting narratives are in fact mainstream talking points.
Hopefully, in my lifetime, the countries resolve their differences & cast aside the hateful fringe like they should.
> negotiating borders
That's a very different thing to "decolonisation".
> manufactured consent to develop jingoism
They have to. A widow survivor of the Pahalgam Attack called for peace and the jingoists lost their collective minds: https://x.com/RahulSeeker/status/1919771002013118540
India is 1.6bn people and even if 7% disagree, that's a 100mn people (and the number is far greater than 7%). Not everyone is a right-wing nationalist, though, the ruling parties and the now-compromised MSMs are.