India, Sept. 9 -- A prominent Indian journalist feels that India remains the only true democratic experiment in South Asia, where pluralism is not merely rhetoric but a constitutional principle.

In his column published in Global Order, Rishi Suri said: "The accounts in Geneva were damning. Ahmadis in Pakistan criminalized simply for identifying as Muslims. Sindhi Hindu women and girls forced into conversions under the shadow of violence and impunity. Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, and indigenous peoples in Bangladesh enduring repeated cycles of communal violence."

He said these incidents reflect an enhanced system of exclusion.

"And they reveal an uncomfortable truth, large parts of South Asia remain unwilling or unable to guarantee th...