An air of bigotry and intolerance, a warped interpretation of religion entering the political discourse, minorities under threat, intellectuals killed, some poor man dragged out of his house and lynched on suspicion that he ate beef—such aberrations weren’t supposed to happen in secular India, the world’s largest democracy. Christians under attack, usually on rumours of blasphemy, a governor gunned down by his own guard for expressing sympathy for a Christian woman in jail, sectarian killings, religion on the march and frenzy on the loose—these were expected to happen in Pakistan. Imagine then the relief, nay, the thrill, of aware Pakistanis realising that for a change, the winds of fanaticism and plain idiocy are blowing more fiercely across the border. Educated Indians couldn’t help being a bit patronising about Pakistan; now the joke is the other way around.