Hopeless heartland: Why Uttar Pradesh must be divided into smaller states

Uttar Pradesh, our largest state by population and the most powerful, is also the worst governed. The only way to fix it is to split it into four or five states

The state of Uttar Pradesh has finally given us a break from coronavirus and China. But what can we say to it in response, thanks, but no thanks?

Because, the context is every bit as disturbing as the threat of a rampaging pandemic or the army of an intrusive neighbour. A man has been killed in an alleged encounter so poorly staged that the policemen — and their political bosses — who did this should lose their jobs for incompetence if not be sent to jail for extra-judicial killing.

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