Post the fall of Hasina govt, under interim leadership of Yunus, Liberation War narratives & revisionism became a key point of discussion amid improvement in Bangladesh-Pakistan ties.
Politics demands an ability to reach beyond established networks and to appeal to constituencies that do not share the same ideological commitments. Jamaat has struggled on this front.
It had initially been planned under the ousted Hasina govt for early last year, but technical complexity of integrating atomic power into grid caused delays.
Maldives, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh & Pakistan have all imposed some form of energy rationing as war continues to roil global energy markets for the third week in row.
What Awami League needs now is not an answer to who will succeed Hasina or even a debate on whether Hasina should return to Bangladesh, but a new leadership on the ground.
Recent research posits that ‘Columbo’ arose from a corruption of ‘Clerembault’—a name on one of the headstones in the mausoleum noted by historian Walter Firminger in 1917.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
Within weeks of Tarique Rahman assuming power, a top military official from Dhaka held talks in Delhi with R&AW chief & India’s Director General of Military Intelligence.
Purported CCTV clip of incident, which occurred Saturday evening, shows masked individual leaving a bag in temple premises & fleeing, seconds before explosion. Probe underway, reports say.
The safety of Bangladeshi Hindus, India’s CAA endeavour, and the rising political crackdown on undocumented immigrants. Jabarani Sarkar finds herself entangled in all three narratives.
Rather than presenting the full spectrum of Indian culture at once, a more strategic approach would be to identify one globally intelligible cultural lane & invest in it consistently.
Issued amid a West Asia war-induced energy crunch, the order now legally binds all entities controlling land, roads and housing societies to facilitate laying of pipelines.
The countries signed a memorandum for co-development of UNICORN masts in November 2024. India has been second Asian nation to have such an agreement with Tokyo, after Philippines.
China living rent free in Mr. Chari’s head. This was a CIA/MI6 backed coup. NED backed Yunis has taken over. India, thinking itself a close US ally let it happen and was caught with its pants down.
Now Bangladesh will probably become another Pakistan and India will be surrounded on all sides by hostile countries. Both BNP and Jammat don’t like India and especially the BJP.
This will have minimal effects on China. They have plenty of influence over the Myanmar groups so any adverse effects to Chinese interests will be minimal. Bangladesh also needs Chinese investment so they will still remain friendly. India has very little influence in general. Northeast will definitely start heating up over the next few years with new insurgencies.
The last time India intervened in Sri Lanka, that did not end well. 2. South Asia policy needs a comprehensive review and reset. Difficult to think of a single country with which relations can be graded excellent. If we felt that way with Bangladesh before 5th August, that too was a fallacy. Close relations with a leader who was becoming increasingly autocratic and unpopular, drawing opprobrium to India as well. 3. Our neighbours desire enlarged economic engagement with China, in the form of trade, investment, infrastructure projects. That should not be regarded as unacceptable.
None of our neighbours like India. They don’t like us interfering in their countries. On one hand, we tell foreign countries not interfere in our affairs but on the other hand, we want to interfere in other countries.
Dear Seshadri Chari, The suggestion you offered is completely wrong and suicidal. India is full with internal problems. It neither has capacity nor the wherewithal to interfere in internal problems of Bangladesh. Let Bangladesh people decide what kind of governance they need. Learn from China. Even if it is very strong militarily and economically, it doesn’t interfere in internal affairs of another. Only USA, the most powerful does that, that too mostly under UN.
China living rent free in Mr. Chari’s head. This was a CIA/MI6 backed coup. NED backed Yunis has taken over. India, thinking itself a close US ally let it happen and was caught with its pants down.
Now Bangladesh will probably become another Pakistan and India will be surrounded on all sides by hostile countries. Both BNP and Jammat don’t like India and especially the BJP.
This will have minimal effects on China. They have plenty of influence over the Myanmar groups so any adverse effects to Chinese interests will be minimal. Bangladesh also needs Chinese investment so they will still remain friendly. India has very little influence in general. Northeast will definitely start heating up over the next few years with new insurgencies.
The last time India intervened in Sri Lanka, that did not end well. 2. South Asia policy needs a comprehensive review and reset. Difficult to think of a single country with which relations can be graded excellent. If we felt that way with Bangladesh before 5th August, that too was a fallacy. Close relations with a leader who was becoming increasingly autocratic and unpopular, drawing opprobrium to India as well. 3. Our neighbours desire enlarged economic engagement with China, in the form of trade, investment, infrastructure projects. That should not be regarded as unacceptable.
None of our neighbours like India. They don’t like us interfering in their countries. On one hand, we tell foreign countries not interfere in our affairs but on the other hand, we want to interfere in other countries.
Dear Seshadri Chari, The suggestion you offered is completely wrong and suicidal. India is full with internal problems. It neither has capacity nor the wherewithal to interfere in internal problems of Bangladesh. Let Bangladesh people decide what kind of governance they need. Learn from China. Even if it is very strong militarily and economically, it doesn’t interfere in internal affairs of another. Only USA, the most powerful does that, that too mostly under UN.