It was the Ravi Shankars and Zakir Hussains, who pioneered Indian 'soft power' on the world stage long before our managerial class took up top jobs in Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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