I read about the on-going trouble in Kashmir with dismay. Whatever is happening is unfair to the Hindus and if you do not stop bending over backwards to the Muslims, the Hurriyat starts saying that Kashmiris are Pakistanis.
That made me think:
How is it that China gulped down this entire country called Tibet and no-one's been able to do anything about it? How is it that we, a country of a billion people cannot keep a valley and four million people quiet?
One silly thing I see in this entire episode is the article 370. We Indians are not allowed to buy property in Kashmir while the Kashmiris can happily buy whatever they want all over India!
China faced with this problem would have given every Kashmiri they could find jobs in Bhagalpur, Thiruchirapalli and Banaskantha while they would have filled Kashmir with Hindus from the same aforesaid places. No one would then have been able to say that Kashmir is a predominantly Muslim region and should secede.
End of story.
Why don't we do just that?
Sure the Hurriyat and the Muslim separatists would cry but I am sure this huge country with infinite resources can take care a bunch of motley old men who just want to stay relevant.
Or can she?
