Selling a brand named nationalism

IT’S time to worry when an utterly illogical proposition begins to sound halfway logical because it has been repeated over and over again, and because glaring gaps in reason have been plugged with dollops of nationalism.

The ongoing cultural war between India and Pakistan, flagged off by a controversy surrounding the screening of a Bolly­wood film and culmina­ting in a ban by Pakistan of all Indian content, is a case in point.