Actually a war hysteria has been created and perhaps in the hope that it will fetch votes to Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the party. The current situation is very grim. Our media and specially the vernacular media including the government sponsored electronic media is more than eager to fight a lasting war with Pakistan, who they think have harmed the interests of India. Regular dead bodies of soldiers are being shown and the TV reporters speaking with the relatives of the martyrs are being shown as a mark of respect for the soldiers. We are told that the widow of the soldiers want to fight for the country and she is proud of her husbands.
Mothers are proud of their sons.
Similar things are happening on the other side of the border. One need not to go in detail whether Pakistan is a failed state or rouge state but unlike India which is an open society, Pakistan remains captive to the military, religious and feudal powers. It is not surprising therefore that Pakistan is the largest feudal state in the world which has rarely exercised democratic norms without getting sanctions from the army. Even those who were in the forefront of Pakistan movement are today foreigner. And not only the streets of Karachi but the slums of Dhaka can clearly demonstrate Pakistani aversion towards the Urdu speaking people who are contemptuously termed as Mohazirs.