Tejas completion is a matter of national pride. Not as a mean of providing defensive needs. For that, there are imports.
This Texas fighter will be use for parades and recruiting poster and web sites. Plus movies... India can produce movies of it shooting down advance planes and make it...
There is a history of Muslims pillage India. So by studying history, Indian subcontinent was an easy picking. The one difference is that India is now a country so it would be more difficult to walk in and take whatever.
It's at least in service.. In Pakistan. Unlike India's LCA. Maybe this is why the Indian op place this in the Indian section. As a reminder that LCA is obsolete on arrival.
Any negative economic news From China would fit into the narrative that China will collapse soon. That is why Indians will jump all over it. It's a nation full of Gordon Chang.