Bangladesh has lashed out at India for allowing the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina to address journalists in New Delhi, plunging already strained bilateral relations to a fresh low.
Dhaka accused India of giving a platform to a fugitive it labelled a “convicted genocider” and of undermining efforts to repair ties, after Hasina vowed to return to Bangladesh in December despite facing a death sentence on charges of “crimes against humanity”.
The angry response late on Wednesday came hours after Hasina, speaking on the second anniversary of the massive student-led uprising that led to her flight to India, declared: “Whatever fate awaits me, I will return to my people.”
India-Bangladesh relations hit new low over exiled PM’s speech to press in Delhi
Sort of reminds me of the IWT.
The meeting on Wednesday – and the Jordanian warning – follow an escalating pattern of government-backed incursions by Jewish religious extremists on the compound around al-Aqsa mosque and Dome of the Rock, in violation of a status quo treaty overseen by Jordan’s Hashemite monarchy, by which only Muslims can pray at the site.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/04/jordan-convenes-emergency-meeting-israel-religious-conflict-jerusalem
Trying to change earlier deals extra-legally.
very interesting – https://www.facebook.com/devduttmyth/posts/pfbid032jQvo2JWoajvvymAyDaZa5cFcbfoTZshgrvoYaTsq6pSWuPCXWRuydnsAzzHcSzrl
Curious to know the Commentariat’s thoughts on this post?
His observation is accurate. Need not have gotten overtly emotionally diagnostic.
Country’s been run by shrewd businessmen. There are pros and cons. The intellectual class that were the Chanakyas are extinct. In fact I’d say that this drift towards economic prosperity and subsequently materialism has hobbled everyone across castes. Money has become the primary deity.
Why is that a bad thing? Personally, I would rather have every house have a refrigerator and a washing machine than having a system that constantly needs Chanakyas to function. I would be better if the republic can function with a few million average intelligences to craft policy in an incrementally better direction over time.
Also this idea that the shudra is marginalized in our country is rather childish to me. We live in the times when OBCs have perhaps the most agency out of any caste group.
WASPs are a minority in the USA but the country is very WASP.
The Brahmanisation of the Elite castes is also what the post touches on. The twin poles is Westernisation versus Sanksritisation.
Traditional Elites Westernise; new elites Sanskritise. There was a paper on this.
I dont think that wedternization and sansritization in India are opposing poles.
They are just two of the schools of thoughts from where convenient ideas are taken. In my view there is no big ideological divide among those who are more pro western and those who are more pro sansritist, aside from some individual exceptions.Caste and class imo play bigger roles.
They all correlate together.
But Westernisation trickles down then Bramanisation..
Does one wipe out the other? In most cases, they complement each other on many things is what I am saying.
Of course each home should have a fridge and a washing machine. My concern is with unbridled consumerism like the US. It simply isn’t sustainable. Personally, I’m wary of the excesses of materialism that everything becomes transactional eventually including relationships. Call me old fashioned, but the nation needs a soul and the ecology, not just prestige, power and money.
We need Chanakyas and mandarins too for an efficient govt machinery. One ought not to come at the cost of the other. If ancient India is anything to go by, it seems to have balanced these aspects.
Fully agree with you on the shudra marginalised assertion. Like I said, dude is emotional and therefore irrational.
+1
I don’t understand what India gains by letting Hasina speak.
They don’t have to send her back to Bangladesh where she faces a death sentence but surely they can prevail upon her to live quietly as a private citizen.
India must realize that every time she opens her mouth she upsets Dhaka.
If India thinks that she can take power again in Dhaka, that seems very misguided.
never say never in the politics of the Indian Subcontinent..
seems like she wants to go back and be a martyr..
The point is that it would surely be better for India-Bangladesh relations if Hasina is not allowed to make provocative statements.
This is an interesting point – either she is speaking out of turn or if she is, then she has been given a lot of latitude as a guest by the Indians. Knowing the Indian establishment, both can be equally true. By the way, the Bangladeshi people have too much to lose in this friction and I am not sure what the current Bangladeshi establishment is also thinking in this regard.
In Bangalore, at health institutions like Narayana Health, 50% of the patients are Bangladeshi and they really need the healthcare. They really have next to nothing in their country and India carries a lot of this burden for them. This is but just one example.
The new regime is failing to live up to the aspiration of the Bangladeshis. We can see that the growth numbers are in the doldrums since the revolution with inflation in double digits. I think even Hasina can sense that if she plays her cards right there is a chance that all may be forgiven.
I think Hasina should learn to cut her losses and goto UK or some place in the new world. The country has clearly rejected her, and if she has any sort of loyalty to her party cadres and her fathers legacy, she should publicly dissociate herself and support them in the background.
This kind of press conferences when it is unlikely if she will ever make good on her declaration is largely to retain her relevance among her supporters.