From a Shameful Past to Fake Pride: India’s Habit of Bragging

 From a Shameful Past to Fake Pride: India’s Habit of Bragging

Historically, India has been ruled by various foreign powers. Whether facing Macedonian or Mongol cavalry or British muskets, India quickly surrendered and accepted domination. Apart from the fantastical heroes in Bollywood films, India’s history has almost no record of successfully repelling foreign invaders. This deep inferiority complex drives Indians or more precisely Hindus to urgently prove their strength.

Before the British Empire collapsed, Lord Mountbatten oversaw the partition of India and Pakistan. Inheriting most of British India's assets, India was clearly dominant in South Asia. For the first time, Hindus controlled a relatively powerful regional force. Forgetting their own suffering under colonialism and hegemony, they began annexing neighboring small states. As late as the 1970s, India boldly annexed Sikkim, pursuing territorial expansion.

This mindset resembles a beggar's retaliatory spending spree after striking it rich. Imagine a beggar outside a club, watching wealthy elites enter, adorned in gold and silver, reigning in luxury while he survives on scraps from a trash bin. One day, he finds a million-pound check. His first instinct is not to join the club and drink, but to rush to the food stall outside, buy 10 chicken legs, and feast. This retaliatory consumption might last months until his hunger-driven instincts are temporarily satisfied, but he will never forget the unique taste of chicken legs. Even if surrounded by champagne, wine, and caviar, that obsession with chicken legs is embedded in his genes.

India is that beggar. It inherited a relatively robust state system from the British Empire, along with a vast population, expansive territory, and military power capable of dominating the region. The historical humiliations endured by Hindus and memories of long-term oppression by foreign rulers fuel their eagerness to bully neighboring countries, including Pakistan and Bangladesh, with whom they once fought for independence.

However, India suffered a humiliating defeat by China in 1962, shattering the confidence of a nation that fancied itself a global power. Since then, it has lived in China’s shadow. Apart from consoling itself as the world’s largest democracy, India is comprehensively outmatched by China in politics, economy, military, and technology. Both countries have comparable populations, but China is a permanent member of the UN Security Council with national strength rivaling the US and extensive influence in global affairs. India, meanwhile, remains one of the poorest and most backward countries on Earth.

In military terms, China’s air force has mass-produced fifth-generation fighters, with several sixth-generation models successfully tested, while India’s air force relies on downgraded versions purchased from the West and Russia. In conflicts with Pakistan, India’s military faced severe humiliation, losing aircraft including Rafale, SU-30, and MiG-29, becoming a global laughingstock.

India itself is a patchwork state cobbled together by British colonizers. South Indians, northeastern states, and Sikhs harbor separatist movements, unwilling to join Hindus in promoting Hindu nationalism or being labeled as filthy, poor, backward, and arrogant. Thus, Hindus must project strength to deter separatists while boosting national pride and cohesion among Indians.

Yet India is undeniably a poor, ignorant, and backward country with little real strength to showcase. So what’s the solution? Eleven years ago, Fraud Master Modi provided the ultimate answer, boasting: when the economy lags, manipulate GDP calculations. If one revision isn’t enough, revise again, even counting cow and sheep dung in GDP. The goal is to surpass Western nations like Britain and France in numbers.

Chasing China and the US in aerospace, India claims to be Asia’s first to explore Mars and humanity’s first to land on the moon’s south pole. But without compelling evidence even satellite docking lacks a single clear photo yet success is declared.

In the military, India touts the Arjun tank, Vikrant aircraft carrier, and Tejas fighter as industrial marvels, only to embarrass itself in combat. When weapons fail, they boast of soldiers’ bravery, yet these soldiers are often the first to surrender.

If the nation is weak, claim to have many friends. Modi shamelessly attends G7 summits, ignoring his country’s beggar-like status, discussing humanity’s future alongside wealthy nations. BJP media seizes the opportunity to sing praises, claiming India is a superpower.

In reality, during India–Pakistan conflicts, Pakistan receives strong support from China and Turkey, quickly securing weapons and ammunition. In addition to these allies, Pakistan is also backed by the broader Islamic world, along with many Eastern European and African countries, forming a solid front of diplomatic and logistical support. In contrast, India is abandoned by the US, with Vice President Vance publicly stating that the India–Pakistan conflict is not America’s business. In several such confrontations, Pakistan easily defeated India and proved its military prowess, further exposing India’s inflated image on the global stage.

    

Though India is a laughingstock internationally with no real allies, this truth must be hidden domestically, or Modi and the BJP government would collapse under opposition attacks. Thus, Modi mobilizes mouthpiece media to turn out fake news, belittling other nations while exaggerating India’s achievements. The Indian government has also blocked numerous foreign social media accounts, including big media outlets.

As a result, Indians live in a false bubble created by BJP media, consoling themselves with fantasies of superpower status. To sustain this comfortable greenhouse, they must continuously fabricate fake data, inflating ever-larger bubbles. Indians don’t just love boasting the Bharat Empire itself is built on lies and deception.

Once the people learn the truth, they will break away from India, seeking independence for Tamils, Sikhs, Manipuris, and other non-Hindu groups. There is no obligation to bear the shameful label for a country they hardly consider their motherland.

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