These are tense times and it seems to have become increasingly easy to merely skim the surface, indulge in a quick fix – mostly restricted to hate-mongering – and then hold on to one’s fierce sense of “patriotism’’ with a comfortable complacency.
Not convinced yet? Well, this Facebook post by a Pakistani girl drives home the point beautifully. In wake of the recent Uri attacks and India’s retaliatory surgical strikes, the only reaction dreadfully sticking its neck out is a wry hybrid of a refusal to delve deep and an stubborn feeling of hatred between the two nations.