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Pak-Bangladesh Diplomatic Spat: Tip of the Iceberg
Tilak Devasher, Consultant, VIF

Recent months have seen Pakistan and Bangladesh expelling each other’s diplomats and ‘summoning’ each other’s envoys to lodge ‘strong’ protests. The expulsions and ‘summoning’ are just the tip of the iceberg, reflective of a deeper ma

February 22, 2016 Neighbourhood Studies, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Pak-Bangladesh, Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, Bilateral ties
Bangladesh - Politics of Confrontation: Political Deadlock
Dr Madhumita Srivastava Balaji

Bangladesh’s tryst with democracy began a new chapter in the nation’s history when the newly independent nation adopted its first Constitution in 1972 with the tenets of nationalism, democracy, socialism and secularism. The then political environ

October 14, 2015 Neighbourhood Studies, Bangladesh, democracy, Bangladesh, Secularism, Socialism, Political Violence
Prime Minister Modi’s Visit to Bangladesh - A Review
C D Sahay

Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid an extremely successful 2-day visit to Bangladesh on June 6&7 2015 that was not only a high profile bilateral visit but was equally rich in substantive content and deliverable out come. As mentioned in our pre-visit

June 10, 2015 Neighbourhood Studies, Bangladesh
India and Bangladesh: The Importance of Seizing the Moment
Amb Tariq Karim

Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, in an interview on the eve of his visit had likened the unanimous ratification of the LBA and its Protocol by the Indian Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha to the fall of the Berlin Wall. How relevant is this analogy?

June 09, 2015 Neighbourhood Studies, Bangladesh
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Upcoming Visit to Bangladesh
Dr Madhumita Srivastava Balaji

Prime Minister Modi, as part of his continuing neighbourhood outreach agenda that began with his visit to Bhutan followed by visits to Nepal, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Seychelles, will be paying a two-day visit to Bangladesh from June 6 to 7, 2015. Unl

June 03, 2015 Neighbourhood Studies, Bangladesh
Bangladesh-India Land Boundary Agreement 1974 and Protocol thereunder of 2011 Some personal insights
Amb Tariq Karim

The unanimity with which the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha finally, on May 6 and 7 respectively this year, passed the Bangladesh-India Land Boundary Agreement, 1974 and the Protocol thereunder of 2011 was indeed a historic, game-changing development in t

May 11, 2015 Neighbourhood Studies, Bangladesh
Sushma Swaraj’s Bangladesh Visit: A Good Start to “Neighbours First” Policy in Dhaka
Monish Gulati

Introduction Termed as a “goodwill visit”, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj led her first international visit to Bangladesh on 25 June accompanied by Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh and other senior officials. The visit marked the first

August 12, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies, Bangladesh
Violence Against Minority Hindus in Bangladesh: An Analysis
Dr Prakash Chandra Sahoo

Introduction Bangladesh was born in 1971 premised on a secular and democratic ethos as paragraph 2 of the preamble of the first constitution of Bangladesh which was adopted on November 4, 1972 accepted ‘nationalism’, ‘socialism’, ‘democr

July 28, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies, Bangladesh
Indo Bangladesh Relations
Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty

Introduction Pakistan Army surrendered to the Indian Army in Dacca on 16 December 1971. It was a victory which resulted in the creation of a new nation Bangladesh which found its rightful place in the committee of nations. India withdrew its Army

April 08, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies, Bangladesh
War Crime Trials: Bangladesh on the Edge
Neha Mehta

The 1971 Liberation War in Bangladesh has been the worst chapter in Bangladesh’s history that witnessed genocide, rape and murder at the hands of the army of West Pakistan and their collaborators in East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh). This re

April 01, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies, Bangladesh
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