The cycle is grotesquely familiar—almost ritualistic in its repetition. Pakistan, a nation perpetually on the verge of internal collapse, continues to find in terrorism its cheapest and most effective tool. For the Pakistani military establishment, exporting jihad is not merely strategic—it is existential. The price is low, the ideological returns are high, and the targets are clear: Hindus.

Each time the blood of innocents is spilled, the Indian state responds with commendations to its security forces, followed by brief celebrations among the citizenry when a few perpetrators are neutralised. The media narrative is predictably packaged: 'terrorists killed', 'normalcy restored', 'resilience displayed'. But behind this façade lies a deeper, darker truth—the problem is never truly addressed, and the cycle continues.

The Enablers Within

This repetition is not sustained by Pakistan's malevolence alone. It is actively enabled by the Indian state's reluctance to name the true ideological enemy, and by the Hindu community's own inability—or unwillingness—to remember, to learn, and to discern. The amnesia is baffling: even after the ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Hindus, tourists from across the country continue to funnel money into a region where jihadist sentiment lingers and where parts of the local economy may very well fund the same ideological ecosystem that perpetrated past atrocities.

To see this as merely a problem of cross-border terrorism is to fundamentally misunderstand the nature of the conflict. What India faces is not a territorial dispute but an ideological war—a civilisational struggle against an exclusivist, supremacist, and violently prophetic monotheism that views pluralism not as a virtue but as a threat to be extinguished. Terrorism is only its most grotesque manifestation.

The Internal Pakistan

The idea of Pakistan, born of this ideology, is not confined to the territory of the Pakistani state. It lives within India—among the unelected elite, in sections of academia, media, and civil society. The real Pakistan is internal, not external. To defeat the state across the border without confronting its ideological shadow at home is to win battles and lose the war.

This internal threat is compounded by a tragic flaw in the Hindu psyche—not a lack of unity, but an endemic failure to distinguish between friend and foe. Unity is often a mirage; discernment, however, is essential. Without identifying common adversaries, no society can mount a coherent defence of its civilisational integrity.

Beyond Reaction: A Strategic Response

The solution is not to react with rage or vengeance. Such responses only serve Pakistan's objectives by enabling its army to rally a disillusioned population against an external enemy. What is needed is not emotion, but strategy. Not reaction, but reconstruction.

India must first name the ideology. Stop fighting the symptoms—terrorists, propaganda networks, and provocateurs—and instead confront the doctrine that produces them. Once the problem is properly diagnosed, the response must be civilisational: rescue those who have been ideologically colonised, and repatriate them spiritually and culturally through mass-scale Ghar Wapsi, undertaken through lawful, dignified, and persuasive means.

Demography, too, must no longer be a taboo. Demographic decline is not a badge of modernity—it is a slow suicide. Every Hindu child deserves a sibling. Every Hindu family must see itself as a custodian of a fragile inheritance. Population control is no longer a virtue in this context; cultural survival is.

The Predictable Pattern

Yet even now, one can predict what comes next. A few weeks from now, PR campaigns will once again sanitise the bloodstains. Kashmir will be rebranded as a tourist haven, the past will be politely forgotten, and Hindus will once again return—smiling, clueless, and funding those who seek their destruction.

It happened in Bangladesh. It is happening in Murshidabad. It has just happened in Pahalgam. And it will happen again.

Unless we learn.