India, May 24 -- Global pressures and domestic political conflicts are raising fresh concerns over Indian democracy.
"Enemies surround you everywhere, stay alert and recognise them." Lata Mangeshkar sang these famous lines around 1962. Unlike "Ae Mere Watan Ke Logon", this was not a patriotic song but part of the mystery-romance film Bees Saal Baad. Yet, in the context of India's political stability and anti-national forces, this sentiment has repeatedly surfaced in conversations that journalists like me have had with politicians, senior bureaucrats and diplomats from the era of Indira Gandhi to Narendra Modi.
That is why recent symbolic political attacks targeting Indian democracy from distant corners of America and Europe sparked intens...