//php if(!empty($last_str)){if(!preg_match('~[0-9]+~', $first_str)){echo $title;}else{echo $last_str; }}else{echo $title;}?>111 : A New Priority in India’s Look East Policy: Evolving Bilateral Relations with Bangladesh
Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury
31 August 2010
India is a country and nation on the rise. The process would be facilitated by a supportive
regional environment. While with Pakistan relations continue to be challenged, with
Bangladesh they appear on the mend. Bangladesh has for a variety of reasons proved to be
the calmest country in the region and is also emerging as a responsible international actor.
However, if this relationship is to evolve satisfactorily, India will be required to assume a
disproportionately greater and non-reciprocal responsibility. The Indian leadership has
already intellectually accepted this role and the article recommends some mutual steps
towards advancing it. This relationship is also in consonance with India's Look East policy,
in which Bangladesh appears to have become a new priority