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    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