India is too large a country with dysfunctional democracy and bureaucracy which is hard if not impossible to fix. Indian states are liguistically, culturally an

India is too large a country with dysfunctional democracy and bureaucracy which is hard if not impossible to fix. Indian states are liguistically, culturally and ethnically separate republics. The true way out for India is to follow an EU style governance formula, where ethnic states become autonomous republics with a common parliament, common currency and common defence mechanism. Indian states once released from the shackles of a centralized bureaucracy can perform much better and develop faster. States like Kerala, Tamilnadu and Gujarat can achieve developed nation status with in few decades at most. Kerala alone can become a $250B economy from the current $65B if only it is allowed to mend its own affairs.