The dialogue on Making Democracy Real ended on 12 Jan with 32 people speaking in less than two minutes each, sharing their conclusions from the conference and the actions they have decided to take. Among them were some of the Tahrir Square revolutionaries, representatives of the Arab Spring.

Days after his acquittal on legal charges, Dato’ Seri Anwar bin Ibrahim, former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, spoke out about the importance of conscience in politics. He asserted that ‘what is politically right cannot be morally wrong, and what is morally right cannot be politically wrong’, and that one cannot struggle without a moral foundation.

During the dialogue on Making Democracy Real, taking place at the Initiatives of Change centre in India, one of the afternoon workshops on the second day was on the theme: ‘The role of the media in deepening democracy’.