Voters in Bangladesh recently handed Sheikh Hasina, already the world’s longest-serving woman prime minister, a fifth term after being in power for 19 years. Hasina’s victory was a fait accompli given that the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party or the BNP of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia boycotted the election. S. Venkat Narayan, a senior Indian journalist and commentator based in New Delhi, was in Dhaka to report the outcome. In a span of 32 hours, he engaged Prime Minister Hasina twice asking her blunt questions, including about the credibility of an election boycotted ...