Now this is what you call a slap in the face. Tarek Fatah, the new found avatara of Hindutvadasis in India who is used as a loudspeaker to puke venom against Pakistan (his country of birth) is discussing how India has never been a single country and its union will break up into individual states.
Whatever.
Who cares about them? Trying to justify your identity (which doesn't exist except concept from Muslim league), you guys have included that India wasn't before 47.
I'm wondering how stupid people can be.
India won't break. If it does, probably not this century. While I do believe separatism will increase, as India gets richer, and wealth disparity between Indian states gets bigger and bigger, I also believe that nationalism among the general population will also grow. Indian exceptional-ism will increase, as the belief among the population will be that India as a global power is the natural way of the world.
While I don't think India will reach global power status this century, it will next century.
Let me simplify it for you.
As the time passes,importance of religion will only fall under secularization occuring during capitalization.
Gap between states won't increase, but rich and poor will increase.
Here's the case of gap between rich and poor, USA and UK have huge gaps but they're still stable. You must care about your country because India will have 4-5 times GDP per capita of Pakistan if projected scenario goes on.
People will become patriotic thinking we are like USA and neighborhood is like Mexico.
You do believe
India won't reach global power status in this century, completely baseless, who made you a think tank analyst?
India can lose global power status by next century which it's going to attain around 2030-35, because our population will start decline after 2070, harming our economic size.
Let's analyze:
Large Economy is a product of GDP per capita and population. India has already high population, and will be an upper middle income country in 15-20 years and high income developed country within 50 years.
Now,
Large economy means large defense budget, large budget for research on science and technology, large budget for space program.
India will be in the same league of US or China in two decades (Russia will decline).
Believe or not.