India-Bangladesh people-to-people ties stronger
One of the positive aspects of India-Bangladesh ties that deserve attention is the curiosity of the common people in each other’s matters. Bangladesh generates huge interest in bordering Indian states...
View ArticleSheikh Hasina’s London visit and its political implications
The Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, came to London on 12 June 2015 and returned to Dhaka on June 18, 2015. Her six-day visit was a private one. She came to London for medical treatment and...
View ArticlePolitical resolution, sine qua non, for regional cooperation
In a long time, although not for the first time, an Indian prime minister will be visiting Bangladesh. For reasons understandable, there is a lot of interest in it. Bangladesh is a country which...
View ArticleModi Magic in Dhaka: Expectation, realism, and irony
There were the realities that were not to be missed about Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh. Not a single cabinet minister accompanied him. A political tradition which dictates that the foreign...
View ArticleWhy Bangladesh is India’s ‘most important neighbour’
Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval described Bangladesh as India’s “most important neighbour”, as the Sikri couple had done years ago. I remember Rajiv Sikri, then an additional secretary in...
View ArticleThe world, as it was in 2015
There is always a dash of the emotional, a pinch of the nostalgic, which takes over your sensibilities with the end of a year. And a year is but time that loses itself in space in ways decreed by...
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