Democracy in Debt in South Asia: Autocratic Rulers and People’s Resistance

'Democracy in Debt in South Asia: Autocratic Rulers and People’s Resistance - Bangladesh, Pakistan and India' Three highly regarded South Asian public intellectuals and peace activists - Beena Sarwar from Pakistan, Mahfuz Anam from Bangladesh and Kanak Dixit from Nepal - discuss with Harsh Mander the profound and diverse threats and challenges to democracy in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India. But they all affirm the longing of the people of each of these countries, and indeed of all of South Asia, for democracy. They discuss the ways that the citizens of these countries have offered resistance to autocracies and military rule, through the ballot and by non-violent protests.