The important aspect is, there are well-educated broad-minded noble souls in the subcontinent and the mistake lies in mixing them up with the militant and retrograde individuals or groups that are causing the havoc everywhere. If there is a mechanism by which this ‘progressive’ constituent can come into play, then many if not most of the problems will just disappear like thin vapours. There could be cultural exchanges; there could be freer communication, could be easy flow of trade and commerce in the entire region as a single unit, even with the removal of export-import duties. Media, in spite of the digital age, have remained aloof from each other. Educational institutions can be opened out for each others’ students, and academic and professional members be encouraged meeting in order to promote the respective fields. Of course, this does not mean that there are not going to be checks against infiltration of anti-social elements. This may look too idealistic, but is there any other way out? The problems cannot be solved at the political level, cannot be solved at the military level, cannot be solved by sticking to formalized religious dogmatism, cannot be solved by importing western ideologies or systems, though all of them can to some degree come to help. If there is a kind of oneness deep in the entire subcontinent, then one has to discover the roots of it and nourish the growth on their vigorous possibilities. There is certainly a truth in what Abraham Maslow had said: "If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." If one sees each a soul’s possibility, then there can be happy concordances of their being in harmonious relationship, individually and collectively. The hope is that this will happen, and if it happens sooner than later much of the human suffering we are experiencing today will be diminished.

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