[qart]

As an Indian, I knew India would be pretty high up, but I would not have guessed topping the list. Here are some of the motivations I have heard over the decades, which I'm only relaying, not endorsing:

* rampant corruption

* rampant disorderliness (queues, traffic, crowds)

* rampant votebank appeasement politics

* the armed forces perceived as a vastly less corrupt institution

* uncontrollably large population (One neighbour even told me she wished someone would drop a few nuclear bombs on a few places randomly. She was fine with randomly being one of the dead.)

Many believe a "strong leader" would take tough decisions to fix India.

[thisislife2]

Pakistani military is famous for its claim that the people of our region don't have the "temperament" for democracy. Sometimes I am amazed how far we indians have managed to tenaciously hold on to our democratic values, when one considers all our internal differences and our immediate neighbours. Recent e.g. - Bangladesh: while the western media paints the recent revolution there as a "democratic" movement against an autocrat, like the Maidan revolution, if you look deeper you find there is nothing really democratic about it; the Awami League, a popular national party, has been banned as apparently "democracy" for such "democratic revolutionaries" means allowing right-wing parties to participate in the elections while holding elections without an opposition.