Bugbears and baggage: Mending India-Bangladesh bilateral ties

Where do Bangladesh and India go from here? Literary gatherings are not exactly known to be hubs of policy discussion, but the mammoth Jaipur Literature Festival held each year in the western Indian state of Rajasthan offered an insight this past week. There I joined two former high commissioners of India to Bangladesh, Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty and Riva Ganguly Das, and the academician Sreeradha Datta, a frequent visitor to Bangladesh, to do some stocktaking and to highlight sticking points. My core views are known to readers of this column; those who are unfamiliar can reach the internet archives of Dhaka…