India’s neighbourhood resembles a bowling alley. Regimes falling one after the other like pins as an invisible force rolls its wrecking ball through nations, overturning governments, and installing a new set of pins of its choice till those fall again.

Who throws that wrecking ball is anybody’s guess. But the fall of the skittles in the region is for all to see.

In spite of winning the 2020 elections, Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested in a February 2021 coup by the Tatmadaw, or military. She is serving a 27-year sentence.

Then the Taliban stormed back to power in August 2021, overthrowing the elected Afghanistan government, sending back US and NATO troops in a hurried, disgraceful withdrawal.

Then Pakistan’s Imran Khan government was toppled, and the leader jailed. Coup attempts by his supporters failed.

In 2022, massive public protests in Sri Lanka against President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his family led to a mob storming the presidential........

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