Let Kashmir go

India should be broken up into a confederation of states with a common army, but each on their own for money. The old hack stories – Bombay’s municipal taxes footing the entire bill for Parliament; Karnataka’s economic growth when taken alone, rivaling that of China’s – shaped this early view of mine. But nowhere does this argument augment itself more, than in happenings of Kashmir. For the first time the nation’s top political experts and commentators have roundly raised the issue of an Independent Kashmir. And I could not agree more. It is just not worth it any more.