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India-Bangladesh Relations – Conditional to a Sheikh Hasina Government?
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina traveled to India for an official visit from September 5th-8th, where she inked several important agreements with her Indian counterpart. The India-Bangladesh bilateral relationship has immensely improved in the last decade, seemingly signaling the success…
Bengal’s Multiple Partitions
The 1947 partition of India and Pakistan has been characterized as a “division of hearts,” as the prioritization of communal tensions over shared cultural bonds gave way to the violent formation of two independent nation-states. Punjab and Bengal – provinces…
How Rising Majoritarianism Affects India-Bangladesh Relations
Bangladesh has witnessed a spate of communal attacks targeting its principal minority religious community, Hindus, with reports suggesting that miscreants attacked Hindu religious establishments across the state during the Durga Puja festival this October. The violence began after a social…
Bangladesh’s BRI Conundrum: Between China and India
During an official visit to Kazakhstan on September 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping laid out his vision for what eventually became known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This multi-decade global infrastructure plan spans 70 countries, stretching from East…
COVID-19 and the Future of Bangladesh
As is the case with most of the world, Bangladesh has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. While official statistics point to over 300,000 cases and approximately 4,200 deaths, questions have been raised about the veracity of these numbers.…
Regional Fallout of India’s Citizenship Amendment Act
In December, both houses of the Indian Parliament passed and the president signed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019, a legislation modifying the Citizenship Act, 1955 to grant certain persecuted minorities a faster route to citizenship. It applies to refugees…