New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- In the most recent of her popular Butterfly books, Between You, Me & the Four Walls, Moni Mohsin's Butterfly Khan observes, "Some Indians I've seen on Facebook are saying kay haw, if we don't watch out, we will also become like Pakistan. I think so they mean they will also start carrying leather kay Birkings and listening to Ghulam Ali's ghazals and producing fast bowlers." A line that could describe the doings of a certain class of India at any time.

Yet, 'why don't you go to Pakistan' has become the troll's favourite tool, often thrown out without realizing, as Butterfly observes sentimentally elsewhere, "whatever we might do to each other, we are still humsayas. Their saya is also our saya, na?" For many Indians, ...