Pakistan, May 13 -- The ugly scenes outside Hyderabad's Karachi Bakery on Saturday - saffron scarves, anti-Pakistan chants, sticks pounding the shop's name - were more than just vandalism. They represent a potent symbol of India's worrying trajectory, where rising Hindutva nationalism increasingly translates external tensions into domestic aggression against minorities and symbols of a shared past.

This wasn't the first time this iconic bakery, founded by Sindhi refugees in 1947 and emphatically branded "100% Indian", faced such wrath. A similar incident occurred in Bengaluru after the 2019 Pulwama attack. Every single-no matter how small, no matter how self-orchestrated-foreign policy crisis means a double whammy for minorities living i...