India, Dec. 29 -- As societies across the world retreat into hardened identities, tolerance is giving way to religious patriotism. From the West to South Asia, faith is being tied to geography - squeezing minorities and forcing India to confront a stark civilisational choice. The year 2025 will be remembered less for a single dramatic rupture and more for a quiet but consequential shift in the moral grammar of societies across the world. From North America and Europe to South Asia and West Asia, the language of pluralism is thinning. In its place is emerging a harder, more territorial idea of religious identity. Tolerance, once projected as a universal virtue, is increasingly seen as a concession. Replacing it is what may best be describe...