I have an alternate explanation while not saying that your are wrong. In fact - I had to do some serious contortion of this type in chap 1 when I wrote my ebook and I still do it when I post on certain sites.CRamS wrote:
Talking about equal equal, I am truly mystyfied why Paki corruption, spot-fixing and their expose causes so much self loathing introspection among deracinated Indian elites?
It's like this. Any Indian who writes the truth that Pakistan is as attractive and clean as a pool of diarrhea is instantly criticised by pointing out all that is wrong in India. This is not just by Pakis - but western sources infected with the genital warts of the "romance of Pakistan view" cultivated over decades when Pakis offered their butts for buggery by anyone with a hard on in the west in exchange for listening to a lecture on the Paki view of India or cursing India. Anything that makes Indians gloat is causes incredible takleef in some western circles. Did you read those articles linked here about how the Indian media are "breathless" about spot fixing etc?
So one way of shutting up those people is to start by saying "Oh I know India has these blablabla problems, but we are now going to talk about Pakistan." So the "equal equal" is sometimes a good tactic as long as the equal equal is not designed to equate but to say that one is not a blind bigot who is unaware of the fact that India has x, y and z issues, but that should not stop anyone from talking about the abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz&+#$%@ issues of Pakistan just because India has x, y and z.