Independence Day

Its the eve of Independence Day in India... and we have a burning crown! I am speaking about the fire that the Amarnath land row has sparked in the northernmost state of India - Jammu and Kashmir.
I have been reading extensively on this issue. It is difficult to comprehend the action taken at the Centre. "The leaders from the valley" don't even feel like they are supposed to care for the interests of the people from Jammu. They are part of the same state... and it does not really seem to matter to them.

There were protests in the valley for a couple of days, and the land allotment order has been reversed. Jammu has been burning for almost 2 months now, and there has been no visible response from the government. A mute all party meeting has no solution to offer...
I am taken over by some pretty strong sentiments about a rather sensitive topic... our national leader, Gandhi. The Partition was not decided over night. There were several debates, and the majority decision was against it. But something seemed to have taken over Gandhi, who went on his hunger-strike for the country to be divided. And the others actually acceded to his whims... Jinnah may have harboured a personal interest in the Partition because that would give him a country to lead, he was not in the race for the post of PM in India then because Nehru was the favourite.
Partition. An era when a country that had stood united in its struggle for Freedom was thrown into a malicious communal divide. The bloodshed that started at the time of the Partition has not receded even after so many years!!!
The "leaders" who master-minded this Divide lived for hardly a year after the event. But the effects seem to be undying... seems worse than the aftermath of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima. The Partition was the parting gift of the British... a deliberate ache in the crown of the country... something that will always be deterrent to the progress of the nation... Maybe if Godse had gotten his act together earlier and killed Gandhi before the Partition, or if Jinnah had left the mortal world a couple of years before he actually did... perhaps our country would have been united at this time... preparing for the celebration of the 61st Independence Day...