Is India turning into a larger, Hindu version of Pakistan?

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

The government recently caused a stir by revoking the Christmas Day holiday, which was a holdover from the British Raj and was considered a secular holiday by most Indians and a nod to the country's tradition of religious pluralism.

Now, India's government is seeking to block a number of major websites, including GitHub and Vimeo.

Between this and lip service to Hindu nationalist and far-right causes in the country, is India becoming more like its arch-rival Pakistan -- a country where religious conservatism, arbitrary proscription of civil liberties and an ersatz version of free market economics trump functioning democracy?

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

No, India still has a long way down to go to resemble anything like Pakistan.

The government recently caused a stir by revoking the Christmas Day holiday, which was a holdover from the British Raj and was considered a secular holiday by most Indians and a nod to the country's tradition of religious pluralism.

Also, where are you seeing this? From what I'm seeing on the news, it was just a proposal to keep schools open and that government officials and workers will not be protected from having to work on December 25th.

If you're telling people they have to go to school/work that day, then it's no longer a holiday.