Opinion | India’s beleaguered liberals are failing to defend principle

In India, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, along with two domestic events — a court ruling upholding a state government prohibiting the hijab in high schools, and the release of a controversial movie depicting the ethnic cleansing of Hindus in Kashmir more than three decades ago — has uncorked a frenzied nationalism. Liberals have been in retreat globally for some time, but these events have conspired to make the predicament of the Indian variety especially dire.