Breaking up is hard to do

The modus operandi is frustratingly simple. Frustrating for the government who has to deal with someone on a fast to death. Simple for the faster.
If Andhra is broken up, before long, the other states will follow with their own fasts unto deaths.
I have long propagated the breaking up of India into a confederation of states. However, by holding a nation to ransom, is not the way to do it. I would let a few fasters die. Either that, or a few states will die.

So, today, a carol that offers the drumbeat to a new age:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb0hAPimGrU&feature=related