As to freedom of Kashmir, India should work hard at winning the hearts of the people there rather than succumbing to near term temptations of just 'letting go'.
Spare us the patronization.
India had 60 years to "win the hearts and minds" of the Kashmiri people, and it used that opportunity to suppress our most basic democratic rights. There's absolutely no reason for Kashmir to trust New Delhi at this point...and now that a whole new generation of Kashmiris have experienced the appalling brutality of Indian occupation, it doesn't look like India's going to be winning over anyone any time soon.
I think one of the major problems is that Indian people seem to be under the impression that there's a "separatist" bogeyman made up of an insignificant minority of the Kashmiri population, and that the rest of us are really patriotic Indians who are too stupid to think for ourselves and manipulated into getting swept up in all this separatist sentiment. I don't know whether its denial, or the success of the Indian propaganda machine, or some combination of the two. The sooner the people of India realize that virtually all Kashmiris are "separatists" and do not (and never have) wanted to be a part of India, the sooner we can start moving towards a realistic solution.