The association self-reportedly seeks secure sustainable development for itself and the global south, to safeguard and advance multilateralism, to institute reform for the goal of representative institutions, and to achieve solidarity among members.
Read More »The Looming Climate-security Crisis in South Asia
Extreme weather has been called a ‘threat multiplier’ — feeding into existing social and political problems and making them even worse.
Read More »Association of Eastern States of South Asia: Part-I
Instead of helping to alleviate the miseries of its poor neighbor, desperately keeping its head (literally) above the rising waters, Indian machinations in Bangladesh know no end. More than anything else, India’s undue interference has contributed to increasing the poverty and suffering of the Bangladeshi people.
Read More »Pakistan and Bangladesh – Time to Move On
With the global and the regional power balances changing, new options for openings are available for both Pakistan and Bangladesh to use all the opportunities arising. Reforging a diplomatic and economic alliance between our two countries could be a priority.
Read More »Bangladeshi Importers Ban Indian Goods in a Tit-for-Tat Move
Bangladesh has banned imports from India via land route following New Delhi's refusal to allow Bangladeshi trucks bring in goods. Bangladeshi traders complain, the Indian ban is causing them heavy losses.
Read More »What is Stoking Nepal-India Tensions?
A full-blown war remains a distant possibility, because India is in no position in the new strategic realities to assert its military muscles against Nepal.
Read More »Can an Association of Eastern States of South Asia Become a Reality?
Can ‘Gujral Doctrine’ be transformed into a regional grouping comprising of culturally close territories of northeast India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan, the political status of which would have to be negotiated between the states to which the territory belongs today?
Read More »Cyclone Amphan Death Toll Reaches 95 in India, Bangladesh
Amphan has made a landfall, bring along heavy rains and winds unto 100mph. At least seven people are dead.
Read More »India Tastes its Own Medicine: ‘Impunity for Non-State Actor Violence’
Isn’t it strange that the Indian campaign against Pakistan was predicated on non-state actors, and now the US report itself accuses New Delhi of “ impunity for violence by non-state actors committed against religious minorities.”
Read More »View from India: A Wake-up Call on Proprietary Seeds
How India can shift its agriculture from a high-yield ideal to a high-value one.
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