Kanak Mani Dixit on 'Have we failed our democracies?'

Himal Southasian Podcast Channel
18/01/2019 11 min

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Kanak Mani Dixit is a Kathmandu-based writer and the founding editor of Himal Southasian. He spoke on the enduring democratic spirit of the Southasian masses despite authoritarian setbacks, and asked how complicit civil society has been in the relative failure of democracy in Southasia.

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