India, Sept. 3 -- The upheaval in Thailand not only underscores the cycle of judicial interventions and political instability but also carries lessons for India as it confronts its own unsettled borders

I arrived in Thailand last Friday just as Bangkok was rocked by the Constitutional Court's expected ruling of dismissal of Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who became PM last year after an election in which democratic parties like her Pheu Thai and the Move Forward Party swept the vote.

Only the previous Friday, her father, a long-time critic of the military-monarchy and former PM Thaksin Shinawatra, was acquitted by a court of a royal defamation charge. His daughter, sister, brother-in-law, and two others connected to him, five elected PMs were ...