One thing Indians HATE is being called a Paki, that's about the only thing you can say that guaranteed WILL p*** them off. SEcondly, there are tons of Indian Christians (30 million at the last count) in India and also in the UK -- there was/is a Labour MP called Keith Vaz.
I did not know that there were that many Christians in India. That's good to know.
I do know that the Hindus practice racism. It's a corrupt country in which socialism is practiced, but in an effort to promote the powerful over the weak.
Younger siblings in adulthood sponge off the older siblings.
Wives are responsible for dowry for the rest of their lives. As are their families.
I am not convinced that widows are no longer tossed onto flames when the husbands die.
One of many countries in which child slavery can call home
I am not overwhelmingly convinced that India is in the right and am not persuaded that we have to live by the old zero sum frames between those two countries.
I would keep both countries at arms' length at this point. Cordial, but alert.
UK Pakistanis ping.
Well- a Sikh I once knew told me one thing to NEVER say to a Sikh was their equivalent of 'MF'. Figures the only two two things I remember of Hindi are THAT word and the greeting.
And you really, really don't want to call a Hindu or Sikh a Muslim. Maybe we need a lot of Sikh police and border guards.