> India is completely balkanizing right now The 1980s and 1990s saw the assassinations of the sitting Prime Minister of India, the sitting Chief Minister of Pu

> India is completely balkanizing right now The 1980s and 1990s saw the assassinations of the sitting Prime Minister of India, the sitting Chief Minister of Punjab, the just-retired Army Chief and the former Prime Minister with simultaneous deadly insurgencies in multiple states with a death toll exceeding 100,000. If the country didn't split up then, there is virtually no chance of that happening today. > The central government is becoming increasingly authoritarian and arresting opposition politicians. Nothing out of the ordinary for central and state governments in India. The current Home Minister was arrested, and the current Prime Minister was subjected to a grueling investigation, by the previous government. State governments routinely arrest local opposition politicians and journalists for various reasons. > In South India there is also increasing separatist sentiments with many feeling the central government is forcing them to learn Hindi. The nativist movement in Tamil Nadu has nothing to do with Hindi. And it is no where as strong as it was 50 years back.