Opinion: 'Try as we might, we’ll not find another contiguous region in the world where about two billion people vote and value democracy. Not in the Americas, not Africa. Europe doesn’t have the numbers, and most of Eastern Asia has the 1.4-billion Chinese overhang.
Something makes the Indian Subcontinent different. All of its nations, from the Maldives through Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan have regular elections. Of course the quality of democracy varies, let’s say from Pakistan at the lowest rung to India. It isn’t my case that Indian democracy is perfect.'

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