NEW DELHI—As a protest by India’s farmers against new reforms entered its sixth week, a kind of ecosystem has developed at the encampment site on the outskirts of New Delhi, where thousands of farmers are staying with their tractor-trolleys, pitched tents, and open kitchens. Meanwhile, netizens are aggressively and openly debating about the measures. Such a situation, when opinions sharply differ but those holding them can coexist, is symptomatic of a functional democracy, experts say. “This is what democracy is: chaos, discussions, debates, and in the end, consensus, not diktat,” Aparna Pande, a research fellow and the director of the Initiative on the Future of India and South Asia at the Washington-based Hudson Institute, told The Epoch Times. “Democracies are chaotic and so I don’t see this hurting India’s image. However, India has a large diaspora that is active and integrated into the countries they live in.” The upside of a …