New Delhi: On ‘The Gist‘, Ambassador Pankaj Saran, India’s Former Deputy National Security Advisor and Ex- Envoy to Bangladesh in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Ambassador Saran says “China has been pursuing a fairly aggressive stance, vis-a-vis all our neighbors, particularly those which are contiguous to us. Sometimes, it is quite […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India rolled out the red carpet for Sheikh Hasina, for possibly the last time given hints that the Bangladeshi prime minister may hang up her boots after elections next year. Of course she gave no such indication, but complimented Modi for his efforts on building ties with Dhaka. She also voiced the wishes […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Is it India’s job to keep Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in power? Recent remarks by the latter country’s foreign minister Abdul Momen, make no bones about that. Did he misspeak? Was something lost in translation? Or was it some political signalling by Dhaka ahead of Hasina’s visit to India next month? In […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Bangladeshi schools textbooks even today do not comprehensively reflect the 1971 war of liberation, argues Ayesha Kabir, editor of the English language edition of the leading Dhaka daily Pratham Alo. This has had an impact on how young people view those events although the government of Sheikh Hasina has done more in that […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In the second of StratNewsGlobal’s three-part series on the Bangladesh war, former diplomat G Parthasarathi recalls the time when he was a young officer in the Indian Embassy in Moscow, and got a sense of the complex negotiations leading to the signing of the Indo-Soviet Treaty of Peace Friendship & Cooperation. As he […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Fifty years ago, India outfoxed Pakistan and won a 13-day war that resulted in the formation of Bangladesh. That remains a glorious chapter in India’s military history; no doubt about that. Then army chief Gen. Sam Manekshaw’s role in preparing/strategising for the war is part of the military folklore. But a recent book […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The 13-day war of liberation with Pakistan in 1971 was the Indian military’s finest hour but plenty of background work was done by India’s intelligence agencies, diplomats and political leadership to make sure the world understood India’s compulsions in taking kinetic action in support of the Bengali freedom struggle. While the alienation of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Islamist groups are not behind the attacks on Durga Puja pandals in Bangladesh, this is the work of the lower level cadres of the ruling Awami League! For Indians conditioned to believing that the Awami League is pro-India, this may come as a shock. But journalist and columnist Saleem Samad argues that […]Read More
DHAKA: It’s the golden jubilee year of Bangladesh’s formation, also 50 years of its diplomatic relations with India. Today, India-Bangladesh ties are in a ‘critically sweet spot’, says Tariq Karim, former Bangladeshi high commissioner to India. “We started off with a big bang, there was a lot of euphoria but the relationship then went up […]Read More
DHAKA: In the golden jubilee year of Bangladesh’s independence, its ties with India remain robust despite ups and downs. Last week, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid a two-day visit to be part of the celebrations: this is Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary year as well. StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale who was […]Read More
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