Even former Indian officers, such as Pravin Sawhney, are called Anti-national when they point out the absurdity of Indian military strategy. He even advocates to make peace with Pakistan, knowing what he knows about where India is going if it keeps on the same track and as China modernizes it’s military.
If France and Germany can make peace, its only vested interests that hold back India from making peace with the Pakistan. If Kashmir was a free country bordering India, it wouldn’t diminish India, but free India and all Indians to spend on human capital development and R&D in industries that would make India prosperous. Just like a free Nepal on India’s border does not diminish India.
Indian culture could then purge itself of the corrosive elements that a culture goes through when it has to justify repressing another people, similar to the Japanese in Korea or the Germans in Eastern Europe during WW2. This would help make India a better place for all Indians, we need only look at how most Japanese and Germans live today, when they have demilitarized their cultures.