Only it was 55 years ago.
In the fog of war, a lot of things happen which should not. However, for what it is worth, I believe the fire discipline of Indian forces to be far superior to that of its adversary.
Can everyone envision the loss of at least 500 million people on all sides, not to mention the very real possibility of nuclear winter?
Sadly, Ralph Bakshi was very prescient if you ask me. (Unfortuanely, there will be no Wizards, Fairies, or Peace as an outome).
I really don't know why so many people consider this anything other than a minor issue. I reviewed the CIA world fact book for 2001, and noted the following:
US-GDP: $9.963 trillion (2000 est.)
Germany-GDP: $1.936 trillion (2000 est.)
Japan-GDP: $3.15 trillion (2000 est.)
India-GDP: $2.2 trillion (2000 est.)
Pakies-GDP: $282 billion (2000 est.)
So, let's suppose that the Pakies are nuked to the green glass stage, and India gets nuked to a turn, but not to the green glass stage. Under these assumptions, if India loses half of it's GDP (way more than I expect) and the pakies lose all of their GDP, the aggregate loss to the world economy is only about 1.4 trillion USD - out of 19 trillion USD for just FIVE countries. That's only about 7%. To put this into perspective, we lost more than this on paper when the US stock market swooned two years ago.
With more conservative assumptions - say, that the pakies lose half their GDP, and India losses a quarter of theirs, the total cost begins to approach the trivial.
So...don't worry, be happy.