India’s top court upholds the central government’s grab at Kashmir
The judges say Narendra Modi was entitled to strip the region of its autonomy
THE PHRASING was unusually gushing even by Narendra Modi’s fulsome social-media style. On December 11th India’s prime minister praised the country’s Supreme Court on X (formerly Twitter) for having “in its profound wisdom…fortified the very essence of unity that we, as Indians, hold dear and cherish above all else.”
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This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Gone for good”
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