    :1) India DID 'arose above demographic distinctions to unite peoples of various geographic, economic, ethnic, linguistic and religious backgrounds' I'm sad I have to continue to point this out! If India did not exist my Telugu speaking Mother would never have met my Tamil Father and I would never have been born! THIS IS NOT A POV. THIS IS FACT!  :2) As its related to you point 1 and filled with sceptical people like you I have get to basics... :- 80.5% Hindus, home to the third-largest population of Muslims in the world (13.4%), Christians (2.3%), Sikhs (1.84%), Buddhists (0.76%), Jains (0.40%), Jews, Zoroastrians, Ahmadi-muslims, and Bahá'ís, not to mention a vast number of tribal communities and other ethnic groups. Home to two major linguistic families: Indo-Aryan (74% of the population) and Dravidian (spoken by about 24%) :23 official languages. 1,652 dialects/mother-tongues. This article will point out 570 princely states each with their own autonomous government. Today this sounds just facinating but back then, when the british left, it must have been done-right scary! NOT POV, just plain reasoning!  :3)Not every terrorism refer to kashmir. We have had, and still have, the LTTE, the Maoist guerrilas called naxalites like People's War Group & CPI-maoist and then Ranvir Sena. The Bodo Liberation front and other groups in the north-east, the Khalistan movement and the list goes on. We have time and again 'put down terrorism by force' it is simply a necessity. A lot of people (policemen, army  and paramilitary, polititian and heads of states) have died doing this. For th last time NOT A POV!  :Finnaly I must plead with you look at things with a little less negetivism. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with the first para or the statements you pointed out. Disagreeing with what you read doesn't make it POV. And please sign your name! :    