 "Indians will be surprised when they visit Pakistan because the place has been so thoroughly demonised in our imagination that reality will shock. It is actually very much like India in a boringly familiar sort of way and even the economy is not dissi")
When I first went to Pakistan (this was a couple of decades ago), I was surprised that they seemed to have better infrastructure than we did. Lahore airport was small but it looked and was modern. It did not have the messiness and sloppy construction of the airports I had been familiar with all my life, at Santa Cruz and in Delhi.
This changed a decade or so later, by when India’s big cities had received swanky airports that could have been anywhere in the world. At that point, taking off from Terminal 3 in Delhi and landing in Lahore it
