Neighbourly Affair: Assignment India
Dhaka, Bangladesh: United Press Limited, 2009. Hardcover. "Bangladesh-India bilateral relations is perhaps amongst the most important and sensitive elements in the foreign policy of both the countries. It has been influenced by common history traditions cultural affinity as it is the closest neighbour of Bangladesh sharing a border of more than 4000kms and most importantly for India's role in Bangladesh's War of Liberation in 1971. The relations between the neighbours have seen many a ups and downs. Beginning from the ecstatic state of intimacy in the immediate post independence period to the creeping in of serious and vexing issues into the bilateral relations such as water sharing of 54 common rivers the land boundary demarcation a growing trade imbalance and the inroad of suspicions on security related matters. A Neighbourly Affair is an account of the special relationship the author developed during his two diplomatic assignments in India. In narrating his Affair he has at times been overwhelmingly emotional and brutally frank. He was first posted to India in 1981 as a junior diplomat. He arrived in Delhi with a baggage full of perceptions misgivings based on what he had learnt from books and hearsay about this neighbour through his childhood adolescence and early adulthood. While in India which is both the object and subject of his Affair he wondered and explored how Bangladesh and India could be brought closer to each other for their mutual benefit. This helped the author to mature and blossom into an effective ambassador of his country. " Good / Good. Item #9665
ISBN: 9847022000226
Octavo, 176 pp. Light blue cloth. In dust jacket. Deaccessioned library copy with usual stamps and markings. Offered here as a solid reading copy.
Price: $45.00