Democracy is a rare reality when it comes to the countries of Asia and Africa. Only two multiparty parliamentarian democracies have done well in Asia – India and Israel – since World War II. Israel was established in 1948 and India became an independent nation in 1947. They have both completed 75 years of an extraordinary political journey as parliamentary democracies that have given freedom to the press and have a robust civil society comprising multireligious and ethnically diverse communities, besides being economically prosperous modern States. Their internal struggles are alike as well — between people with religious worldviews and...