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Unsettling signs of danger to democracy in South Asia
India has reached a point where one doesn’t know what can get them into jail. Surely not something that a democratic country should have to go through.
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India, considered the bulwark of democracy, has also slipped on the front.
Democracy appears to be gradually, and worryingly, receding in South Asia with strong authoritarian winds blowing within and around India’s neighbourhood.
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