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Elders continue to glibly state that Pakistan being our neighbor, we cannot wish it away. Therefore, we have to learn to live with it. For the size and the resources of India, the fact is that Pakistan has a powerful neighbor in India and that it is time Pakistan learnt to live with us! New Delhi insists that it will not bend against terrorism and promptly succumbs - instead of sending a powerful signal that India will crush terrorism in its entirety through interventionist policy.

This negativity and the inability to ensure firm counter-measures, which will rattle the enemy in his own den stems from primarily two social factors peculiar to India. First and the foremost is the confusion of the Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) system, which affects the sub-continent irrespective of...