No - I think the delusion is in Jingoistic Indian minds. Jingoism is like a rabid tapeworm living inside Indian stomachs and symptoms include this tapeworm rearing its blind ugly head like a cobra which makes Indians irritated - reciting things like Bande Mataram etc. They keep hallucinating about Muslim rickshaw-pullers from West Bengal taking over their major cities and resort to calling them Bangladeshis.
The disease manifests itself by living in third-rate high rises in larger cities in India, where one cannot escape the view of slums (Dharavi etc.) spread down below or people going to the bathroom wide open next to the Railway right-of-way. Then in typical Indian fashion, the mind tunes out these ugly realities and proceeds to build a fictional India in the Indian mind (oh sweet delusion) where India is a superpower. Their idiotic newsprint and TV media keeps repeating running fictional stories daily where India really matters when the story is far from the truth.
Why read stories and think about how to help Girls go to school when you can spend that money on a shiny new airport. You get first rate boasting fodder
The Indian media has long since figured out how to cleverly feed Indians' collective egos by running stories on how India is becoming number one or two in producing some useless weapon or nuclear subs, which will fail to work anyway (Ishwar forbid that moment ever arrives where it has to be used) rather than feed schoolchildren or buy them proper textbooks.
Their Govt. is an active collaborator in all of this because the politicians know that Jingoism is great to whip up the fervor of 'Mera Bharat Mahan' - which in turn justifies spending unaccounted Billions in failed weapons programs only to line the pockets of the rich and powerful, while ignoring ground realities like lack of proper latrines and continually falling human development index numbers (especially in BIMARU areas). Meanwhile their industrialists like Tata, Birla, Reliance et al keep kicking the Indian consumers' teeth in by selling them substandard 'mal' (goods) in a captive market at way more inflated prices than the world standard dictates. The cowardly India consumer has to do with lowly salaries where they can't even afford a proper car to carry their family - resulting in indignation of carrying all five family members in a motocycle.
Meanwhile the rate of farmer suicide continues across India because of drought caused by a lack of long-term water resources planning. Rich and middle-class Indians have long since given up on caring for their own (especially the poor) and keep their jingoistic dreams alive by calling neighbors failed states or Jihadi states - while not realizing the irony of having relatively little of value in India itself worth fighting or lobbing missiles for. It escapes them that giving these people some education and some jobs for exports would solve India's major problems a la China. But in typical Bhartiya fashion - they give up...
For the hundreds of millions of unwashed Indian masses - the 'Mahan' saviors of their motherland couldn't give a flying horse's *** but keeps on helping their rich amass Billions in illicit kickbacks from useless weapons programs.
