Now, you asked specifically, how do I think it will affect policy towards India.
The different attitudes towards India were publicly exposed when political leaders were forced to retract a promise to send the intelligence chief to Delhi.
Divided by tribe, wealth and religious sect, Pakistanis often seem to share little but a waning enmity towards India, the sacred spring from which the army draws its strength.
Already, Sri Lankans are sounding warmer towards India.
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Confusion persists over who is in command of a country where the armed forces are used to wielding power, where Islamist fundamentalists pounce on any sign of weakness towards India over Kashmir and where the two groups sometimes overlap.
In recent days commentators and campaigners here have looked, almost enviously, towards India, wondering what it might take to provoke a similar sense of outrage - and angrily debating whether outrage itself is enough, and who, or what, to blame.
But Sachin Tendulkar (47) helped India towards safety before VVS Laxman (59no) and Sourav Ganguly finished the job.
In Africa and Asia, the colonial rulers never practised democracy, though Britain made ever-so-timid, belated steps towards it in India.
Policy towards China and India has been rather more productive.
But British actions and opposition towards Gandhi's Quit India movement are now seen to have played a key role in the disaster.
He said the UK needed to "reorientate" itself, when it came to exports, towards expanding economies such as India, Thailand and Indonesia.
With Sharma growing in confidence at the other end, and key paceman Bollinger forced off with injury, India were surging towards the winning post.
India's apparent nonchalance towards sexual harassment has escalated into a major crisis.
However, India's ability to intervene in countries such as Sri Lanka and Nepal is limited by resentment at India's perceived paternalism towards its smaller neighbours.
ECONOMIST: As India's clout grows it will reshape the world around it
Just as America had the words and deeds of our Founding Fathers to help chart a course towards freedom and justice and opportunity, India has this incredible history to draw on, millennia of civilization, the examples of leaders like Gandhi and Nehru.
Is India headed into a downward spiral towards butchery, or war, or both?
India has gone a long way towards repairing relations with China, frayed by its nuclear tests a year ago.
While the global smartphone growth slows down, demand is simultaneously shifting towards low-income markets like Brazil, India, Nigeria and Malaysia.
Ms Gillard said she wanted to refocus Australia away from Europe's "old countries" towards its near neighbours - particularly China and India.
Roy says this victory gave India the confidence to make the move towards independence, which finally happened 36 years later.
But about 85m years ago, as India started to drift away from Madagascar towards its current location, the microcontinent would have broken up, eventually disappearing beneath the waves.
BBC: Fragments of ancient continent buried under Indian Ocean
Until India Inc and the government show some concern towards employees and citizens, we cannot really enjoy the fruits borne out of the growing economy.
Some investors are allocating money towards countries with beaten-up currencies, such as India or Russia, or those with more benign central banks, such as Mexico, that do not have a history of frequent forex intervention.
Jaguar Land Rover, a British carmaker owned by India's Tata, took the first step towards setting up a manufacturing base in China by proposing a joint venture with Chery, a Chinese car company.
American philosopher Michael Sandel sparked more soul-searching by asking his mainly Indian audience to debate attitudes towards rape and moral parallels between the sexual and the communal violence India has seen so much of.
As a result, India's democratic political system will go a long way towards calming the apprehensions of established powers.
ECONOMIST: As India's clout grows it will reshape the world around it
For the moment, India can hide behind America and China, which are barely inching towards a common approach.
Towards the end of the century, many developing countries China and India among them finally threw off this victim's mantle and began to embrace wicked capitalism, both in the way they organised their domestic economies and in their approach to international trade.
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