Don't project your fears onto India. Islamic jihad is a trivial part of indian existence. In today's India I would be more worried about being hit by a vehicle

But that warning does not seem be on the minds of the remaining 1.2 billion Indians Look at the headlines in the Time of India - India's leading English language paper and other leading Indian papers.

If the incipient Indo-Pak crisis of the past fortnight had any lesson to convey, it was that the road to perdition is lined with shrill, hystericalTV anchors, bloodthirsty politicians and a seemingly somnolent national securityestablishment. In the dangerously incendiary atmosphere that was allowed to build up recently, the last thing the subcontinent needed was a chest-thumping xenophobic verbal exchange between the leadership of India and Pakistan - civil or military - because it could have easily spiralled into a 'patriotic' war. Fortunately,both nations stepped back from the brink. India and Pakistan can do without another war, because it would render grievous harm to both economies. For India, conflict would mean a serious setback to its ambitious developmental plans; but given Pakistan's faltering economy and its emerging ethnic and sectarian fissures, it could cause this fragile entity to self-destruct; with immense collateral damage to the neighbourhood. Pakistan's bluff of a nuclear riposte in the face of conventional setbacks was called in Kargil in 1999. Yet, this unstable country persists with the farce of a tacit 'doctrine of ambiguity', and has taken the bizarre decision to stockpile tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) in the hope of intimidating India. ... continue reading to see what India thinks of the proposed nuclear war with Pakistan.... [the Indians are not impressed by the intellectual heft of the Pakistan military]