I fell in love with India upon my first exposure to Indian Punjab on TV, I think it was when I saw Dil Lagi, before that my image of India was that of Tamils and Gujaratis as they were the only Indians I knew, lovely people but so completely different from us.
I loved Pakistan but I never thought of it as a reason to hate India.
I'm a naustalgic guy, when I saw Indian Punjab I was amazed that they speak Punjabi just like us, they eat the same foods (makki do roti n sarson da saag), they wear proper salwar-kamiz (not just those skin tight payjamas), they have the same wedding traditions and songs, the same mustard fields, same houses, they have the same folk-tales and poetry, some of them have the same surnames, they bathe at the tube-wells too...
I started thinking of India as another Pakistan and Indians as fellow South-Asians but my rose-tinted spectacles soon broke.
As we age we start thinking with our brains instead of our hearts.
As I got to know Indians I realised that they are very patriotic people, which is fine but their patriotism just boils down to one thing and that is hatred of Pakistan.
Majority of the Indians I know are anti-Pakistan propoganda machines, they wont let go of a chance to malign and badmouth Pakistan and these are regular guys at work, yes they can be very sweet at times but they also backstab and have a bad habit of bringing politics up in everything...
Then there's the anti-Pakistan/Islam Indian media and politicians which you all know about...
They accuse us of being haters when in actual fact Pakistanis don't automatically think enemy when they hear the word India.. In Pakistan people are crazy for Indian films and dramas whilst Indians don't even know the name of a single Paki celebrity.
Indians don't even realise that there are any similairties between the two countries, they think we're Arabs or something, they get religion and ethnicity all mixed up, Indian Punjabis think Punjabi=Sikhs. seriously check their bulletin boards out.
...Due to these things I'm not as warm towards India anymore, once you look over the superficial similarities we're very different.. but I still don't hate India or Hindus, hate is a strong word, I'm more reserved towards them now, first when I use to see an Indian my eyes would light because I loved talking in Hindi/Urdu and Punjabi, now I prefer to keep my distance.