‘A continent divided’
In 1969 WH Auden, the celebrated British poet published ‘Partition’, a poem which is a tragic reminder of when riots, rapes, atrocities, massacres and savagery raise high the bar of inhumanity in our land
In 1969 WH Auden, the celebrated British poet published ‘Partition’, a poem which is a tragic reminder of when riots, rapes, atrocities, massacres and savagery raise high the bar of inhumanity in our land
India’s strategic interests in South Asia have always been intricately linked with its relationship with Bangladesh. Over the past 15 years, the India-Bangladesh partnership flourished under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s leadership.
Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule ended on 5 August when she left her country for temporary refuge in India. The progeny of Bangladesh’s founding patriarch Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, she was once heralded as a transformative figure whose leadership ushered in an era of unprecedented economic prosperity for her nation.
The Fragile State Index has highlighted South Asia as a politically unstable region with the maximum number of failed states and acute political instability.
India remains a "strong" recipient of foreign investments as multinationals recognise it as an alternative manufacturing base for supply chains, according to the United Nations.
“We are convinced that durable peace in South Asia is contingent upon resolving all issues between India and Pakistan, particularly the Jammu and Kashmir dispute,” he said in the letter sent in response to the message received by him from Modi last week on the occasion of ‘Pakistan Day’.
The Islamists have issued an ultimatum to the Imran Khan government, arguing that France had insulted Prophet Mohamad and thereby committed blasphemy, “a sin that cannot be forgiven”.
A member of the Institute of Narcotic Studies and Analysis (INSA), Delhi, Sharma, 55, has been voluntarily working on alternative development models in HP to get people away from cultivation of cannabis and opium.
New Delhi has long held the view that bar its all-weather adversary Pakistan, the region falls under its ‘sphere of influence’ though the term is never used publicly for obvious reasons. Chinese financing in the South Asian region sans India has been well-documented.
The gender-poverty gap will worsen further still in South Asia, Central and Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa ~ “home to 87 per cent of the world’s extreme poor”.
