The Real Anxiety: Identity, Not History
Strip away the abuse, and what remains is anxiety.
Some Indians fear erasure. Some Pakistanis fear apostasy. Both sides mistake cultural continuity for ideological betrayal.
But cultures survive precisely because they outlive the ideologies imposed upon them.
Basant’s return is not Pakistan rediscovering Hinduism.
It is Pakistan rediscovering itself beyond reactionary identity politics.
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