Pakistan, Feb. 13 -- For decades, India was built up as a rising power, a counterweight to China, and a pillar of regional stability. This narrative, largely pushed forward by the West, allowed India to ride high on a wave of external backing. However, as those favors dry up, India finds itself increasingly overextended. Its internal contradictions are coming to the surface, its geopolitical ambitions are running into walls, and the weight of history is catching up with it. The very advantages that once allowed India to push ahead-including the West's post-colonial partition formulas, economic privileges, and diplomatic shields-are now turning against it. Nowhere is this clearer than in its fragile economic model, its strained military po...