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Kashmir: The ‘wounded civilisation’ strikes back

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God knows what novelist V.S. Naipaul really meant half a century ago when he called India “the wounded civilisation” in his travelogue-cum-psychoanalysis book about the home of his ancestors. But it is a handy phrase, because it encapsulates the vision that drove Prime Minister Narendra Modi to destroy the deal that bound Kashmir to India on Monday.

There is going to be a war over this. Certain...


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