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Bangladesh Contests Illegal Border Fence With India

One needn’t be reminded that India and Bangladesh share a border and that there are often skirmishes along that winding strip of land.  So, as if to unnecessarily remind, the government of Bangladesh charged India with constructing a fence in violation of international law.

Perhaps if there weren’t quite as much credibility and mutually advantage riding  on Bangladesh and India’s rapprochment, this might have turned into a bigger row.  But for now, India has owned up to its culpability and peace has again settled over the land.

 

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Faheem Haider

Faheem Haider is a political analyst, writer and artist. He holds advanced research degrees in political economy, political theory and the political economy of development from the London School of Economics and Political Science and New York University. He also studied political psychology at Columbia University. During long stints away from his beloved Washington Square Park, he studied peace and conflict resolution and French history and European politics at the American University in Washington DC and the University of Paris, respectively.

Faheem has research expertise in democratic theory and the political economy of democracy in South Asia. In whatever time he has to spare, Faheem paints, writes, and edits his own blog on the photographic image and its relationship to the political narrative of fascist, liberal and progressivist art.

That work and associated writing can be found at the following link: http://blackandwhiteandthings.wordpress.com