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To: ratan lal who wrote (12231)	6/13/2002 6:03:50 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 12475

Kashmir will benefit financially since large amounts of funds and commerce will flow in. From where? From the sky?! All the Pakistanis will benefit from the freedoms and prosperity that India offers (compared to Pakistan). Both countries are in about the same shape. The rich guy in Bombay or Delhi enjoys life the same way a rich guy in Karachi or Islamabad does. And a poor guy in Bombay is no better or worse off than a poor guy in Karachi. All this nonsense about India being more prosperous is just that -- nonsense.

To: ratan lal who wrote (12231)	6/15/2002 9:40:39 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 12475

I am not sure if you are advocating that Kashmir cannot become independent because other states (areas?, provinces?)in India desire the same thing, but IF you are I for one do not accept that argument. To me, the circumstances under which Kashmir became part of India are entirely different then which the other areas become part of the nation and a different set of criteria should apply. People have argued on this forum that the withdrawal of Kashmir from India is the end of secular India as if that was a valid reason to keep Kashmir in India. If an Independent Kashmir is the end of secular India so be it--if that is what the majority of Indians what--a Hindu governed nation. And if an Independent Kashmir means that India is broken up into different states or evolves into a federation--so what--let it happen. Or if it leads to civil war---so what--maybe the question needs to be settled that way once and for all--just as the civil war in America settled it. To my mind the concept of an Indian nation is a very fragile one and maybe was a result of the reaction to the British empire. The geographic area of India may well function better as a set of independent states. I am not advocating this, but I am saying I don't buy the argument that Kashmirian Independence should be doomed just because it might break up India. If the idea of Indian nationhood is so weak it can't survive Kashmiran Independence then maybe India deserves to fail as a nation.