How do you interpret the situation today in South Asia. I would look at it through the prism of hope.
1.2 billion people are involved. IT and Panama Papers are the key to a new revolution that is coming.

In South Asia, In the game of Control politics, the Nationalism and Religion combine gets involved overlooking the real issues that affect the daily lives of the ordinary people.. The national boundary lines do not mean anything at all other than the fact that they bring miseries to millions of people globally for the wrong decision making at the central government levels who really do not give an iota of importance to the local cultures etc. Despite the religion I can confidently say that the mass cross migration between the two communities in Punjab would have never occurred in 1947 if the local populations were directed to deal with the separation as both sides of the Punjab understood the culture and the language. Neither India nor Pakistan were individual countries at the time of the partition. Both were created because the occupier was at the middle of leaving and created intentional misunderstandings between the few chosen negotiators who never understood the ethos of an independent nationhood neither the culture of the Punjabis. In my words the citizens of both the countries were just about being released from the slavery mind set. How could they suddenly understand and grasp what democratic nationalism was as interpreted in the modern world status quo.. India and Pakistan were both ruled by religious and caste oriented village panchayat cabalism where only the Priests or Imams even today have a greater say. They hold a sham democracy card every 5 years giving the controlling powers a free hand in ruling a nation because these populations have never understood what their rights are under a true free democratic society. We all know India is ruled by Central Government Imperialism and the nexus of Civil Servants, Politicians and Industrialist control the resources and in Pakistan It is the same with Army calling the shots. The Panama papers have now been released and hopefully they are going to bring about the long awaited change in breaking these Mafias. There is no other word than to describe the ruling elite in both the countries as ‘Mafias’ be it religious ,army, politicians or any other form of opportunism they are all in the same league as far as I am concerned. This brings China into the recognition China never takes knee jerk decisions therefore the blocking of Brahmaputra Tributary is a decision showing very desperate times. Just like Eastern Turkmenistan China has a big problem going southwards via the POK Kashmir and Baluchistan region they will have to fill it with Huns and will take decades to do so. The resident populations of this region are not educated enough to break with the traditions to adopt materialism and pseudo capitalism that China propagates. Pakistan will be a total loser in this game of encroachment nationalism. India’s economy is growing and as a matter of fact if allowed to grow peacefully will overtake China within the next 25 years. However if the China India combine became united with a peaceful accord the growth for both countries will reach great heights and this was once the case some time ago when Nalanda University was the central focal point of universal learning. All I will say for now is that Nalanda era is definitely on the anvil. After going through a lot of trying moments the populations as they grow and educated by the Internet breaking the cultural divisions the awareness will dawn and Nationalism and religions will be eliminated creating a massive FTA with minimal governance of the people. The internet and the IT will become the new avenue of governance. Just like the renewable clean energies will take over the generation of electricity which will be a hundred times cheaper and economic and decentralized compared to today. I will not say anything more for now as quite rightly we are still living in the pre- pre historic times even long before the stone ages in terms of human evolution. The entire arsenal of the Earth’s Nuclear bombs of the current stone age will have to be eliminated first.