The next stage of Bangladesh-India relations should involve long-term, innovative projects.
As yet another stage of religious tension arises in the subcontinent, it was heartening to see Australians warm up to the great Bengali film director Satyajit Ray.
Amid the trespassing of several hundred people from India in recent weeks, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan firmly says that no one except Bangladeshi citizens will be allowed to enter the country from the neighboring state.
The matter is compounded further when one of the two happens to be the main protagonist of the current global war on terror and whose policy of fighting that war stemmed from the most injudicious, self-centered strategy that has accentuated rather than attenuated extremism, and whose policy has helped extremists spread their tentacles in countries which were not in their radar before the start of the GWOT.
The next stage of Bangladesh-India relations should involve long-term, innovative projects.
As yet another stage of religious tension arises in the subcontinent, it was heartening to see Australians warm up to the great Bengali film director Satyajit Ray.
Amid the trespassing of several hundred people from India in recent weeks, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan firmly says that no one except Bangladeshi citizens will be allowed to enter the country from the neighboring state.
The matter is compounded further when one of the two happens to be the main protagonist of the current global war on terror and whose policy of fighting that war stemmed from the most injudicious, self-centered strategy that has accentuated rather than attenuated extremism, and whose policy has helped extremists spread their tentacles in countries which were not in their radar before the start of the GWOT.
