Writes from India Sagnik Mukherjee Amid the recent war-like tension brewing between India and Pakistan, both states have issued various statements. Following a sudden terrorist attack on tourists in Pahalgam, Kashmir, on April 22, 2025, which claimed 26 lives, the situation escalated into one resembling war. The Indian state, under the pretext of combating so-called “Islamic terrorism,” is preparing for military action. Similarly, the Pakistani state has historically supported the same kind of frustrated petty-bourgeois terrorism, often veiled in religious garb—because religious identity (not religion itself) proves most effective and…
