Anti-Muslim hate speech rose by 62% in the second half of 2023, averaging almost one incident per day, according to Washington-based research. India Hate Lab documented 668 hate speech incidents targeting Muslims in 2023, 255 of which occurred in the first half of the year opens a new tab, while 413 took place in the last six […]
On Monday, December 9, Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri arrived in Dhaka for a day-long visit amid a strained relationship between India and Bangladesh. India-Bangladesh relations have become even worse in recent weeks over the arrest of the Hindu monk Chinmoy Krisha Das, inducing a spurt of negative fake news about ethnic minority issues in […]
Muslims guarding a Hindu temple in Bangladesh.
India, by far the biggest country in Southeast Asia, has suffered another foreign policy debacle. This is one of the worst setbacks regarding its relations with its neighbors. Their puppet regime in Bangladesh, headed by Sheikh Hasina, the worst tyrant in the country of around 180 million people, has fallen with total disgrace and humiliation. It is equivalent to India’s humiliation because most Bangladeshis see the fallen and illegitimate government of Sheikh Hasina as a regime “of India, by India, and for ..
Many books and articles have been written with piecemeal pictures of the loot and plunder of Bangladesh by India. But there are also a few excellent works available on Indian hegemony in Bangladesh and South Asia. One is: The India Doctrine (1947-2007): A Contemporary Study on Indian Hegemony and Geo-Strategic Perspectives on South Asia (2012), […]
The speech of the Chinese Ambassador Yao Wen dismayed and disappointed the people of Bangladesh who are struggling to restore democracy, human rights, freedom of speech and the press and above all, voting rights. The ambassador made this comment while speaking at an event held on November 9, 2023. It was jointly organized by the […]
The anti-China demonstration in New Delhi during the G20 Summit on September 8, 2023, uncovered how India reap its multifarious interests by using foreign refugees sheltered in its soil. It is understandable. India sponsored this demonstration to attract the attention of high-level foreign dignitaries to the Tibetan problem and create an anti-China sentiment around the […]
In a strategic move aimed at maintaining equilibrium in its foreign relations, Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda is set to embark on a crucial visit to China at the end of September. This visit holds paramount importance, not only for Nepal, but also for the broader region, particularly against the backdrop of an […]
India’s infamous Prime Minister, Narendra Modi while inaugurating the recently constructed parliament building on May 28 unveiled a map of the so-called Aakhand Bharat. In this imaginary map Modi named nine independent and sovereign countries whose territorial boundaries are demarcated and internationally recognized. They are India’s adjoining neighbors: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tibet (Chinese territory), Nepal, Bhutan, […]
Riyadh and Damascus were in rival camps in the 1950s and 1960s. After 1963, Syria’s relations with Saudi Arabia have undergone periodic fluctuations. After the challenges in the 1980s, the two countries’ relations improved in the 1990s, but the assassination of Rafik Hariri in Lebanon, and Riyadh’s support to the anti-government factions in Syria (2008) […]