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Is West Bengal Sliding Toward Democratic Collapse? Lessons from Bangladesh

West Bengal today bears an unsettling resemblance to Bangladesh in the years before its democratic collapseโ€”when elections were still held, courts still functioned, and newspapers still printed headlines, but power had already slipped beyond constitutional restraint. What follows is not alarmism. It is pattern recognition. Democracies do not usually fall with a bang; they are […]