The article is honest but the last paragraph makes me question whether it really was..<p>&gt; India really is not a rational country. The English mushed India together in the panic of independence in 1947, but little heed was given to ethnic, religious, linguistic, historic, national, or geographic considerations which is one reason India has had problems with every one of its neighbors since. India as we know it will not survive another 30 or 40 years. This of course does not have to end in disaster, but it probably will given the chauvinism of its government and the way history has always worked.<p>Really? A democracy of 1.3 billion people which has held together for &gt; 60 years and endured &gt; 4 major wars will just topple? I find that very unlikely.<p>The fact is that despite a lot of troubles, the country has managed to remain more or less true to its principles of democracy and secularism, instead of devolving into a chaotic mess that most of the neighboring countries have faced. One reason is that the Indian Military has historically been apolitical, unlike many neighboring countries. I don&#x27;t really understand how it has managed to stay together this way but I really hope that it does continue.