Category: South Asia affairs

The Changing Face of South Asia India’s Neighbourhood Concerns Amid Pakistan’s Growing Ties with Bangladesh ETv Bharat 15 Jan 2024

The Changing Face of South Asia: India’s Neighbourhood Concerns Amid Pakistan’s Growing Ties with Bangladesh ETv Bharat 15 Jan 2024The recent meeting between the Indian foreign secretary, Vikram Misri, and the Afghanistan Acting Foreign Minister, Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, in Dubai, is the latest in the changing scenario in South Asia. The landscape began to change with the overthrowing of […]

India-Bangladesh ties in the coming days The Excelsior 01 Jan 2025

India-Bangladesh ties in the coming days The Excelsior 01 Jan 2025The Indian foreign secretary, Vikram Misri, recently visited Bangladesh and apart from meeting his counterpart, Mohammad Touhid Hossain, also met the head of the interim government, Mohammad Yunus. As per the MEA readout, he highlighted India’s support for a democratic, stable, peaceful, progressive and inclusive Bangladesh. In addition, he conveyed […]

Bangladesh and Pakistan coming closer The Excelsior 19 Dec 2024

Bangladesh and Pakistan coming closer The Excelsior 19 Dec 2024Since the overthrow of the Sheikh Hasina regime by violent student led protests and the installation of the Yunus interim government, the Bangladesh economy is moving downhill as also violence against minorities is testing its relationships with India. Despite the Indian foreign secretary meeting his Bangladeshi counterpart, Touhid Hussain, as also […]

Minorities under threat in Bangladesh The Excelsior 12 Dec 2024

Minorities under threat in Bangladesh The Excelsior 12 Dec 2024Last week, adviser for Information and Broadcasting of the interim government of Bangladesh, Nahid Islam, tweeted that Indian ruling elite and Hindutva forces were ‘engaging in divisive politics and anti-Bangladesh rhetoric.’ He added that student leaders planned setting up a media cell to counter the Indian narrative that fundamentalism was growing […]

Delhi must review terms of South Asia engagements The Statesman 08 Oct 2024

Bangladesh model of regime change The Statesman 17 Sep 2024

The US ignoring Bangladesh is an error The Excelsior 07 Sept 2024

The US ignoring Bangladesh is an error The Excelsior 07 Sept 2024           News emerging from Bangladesh indicate that the situation within is far from normal. While the Muhammad Yunus led interim government has been installed, it has failed to curb ongoing violence against minorities. Factories and residences owned by erstwhile members of disposed PM Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League as […]

Turmoil in the neighbourhood The Excelsior 31 Aug 2024

The misjudgement of the Hasina government The Excelsior 14 Aug 2024

India’s challenges amidst Sheikh Hasina’s travails The Statesman 13 Aug 2024

India’s challenges amidst Sheikh Hasina’s travails The Statesman 13 Aug 2024           A chapter in Bangladesh’s history has ended. The family which led the fight for freedom from the shackles of Pakistan and headed it for most part of its democratic phase will no longer have any role in its future. Sheikh Hasina’s departure from Dacca, amidst the rising violence, […]