Since the ouster of ‘pro-India’ leader Sheikh Hasina from office in Bangladesh, a tsunami of pessimism has descended on Indians, and her opponents, including the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Jamaat-e-Islami, have emerged as prominent in the new order of things. There is no doubt that Hasina’s tenure in power aided India’s primary strategic goals in the area by providing a stable ally in the east, but not everything is lost with her departure.
In fact, the tendency to designate every day as an apocalypse occasionally goes too far, closing the door to meaningful collaboration with anyone in charge in the community. We cannot select our neighbors, nor can we choose their leadership, and while we may not always have a favorable hand in power, common sense requires that the engagement must continue.
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