Dhaka, Feb. 6 -- Bangladesh wants a good working relationship with India based on mutual respect and hopes that India will reciprocate the desire, writes Touhid Hossain, foreign affairs advisor to the interim government.

Relations between Bangladesh and India have reached a critical juncture following the ouster of the Awami League regime in a student-led mass uprising in July-August 2024, the advisor wrote in an article published in the Indian daily The Indian Express.

"It seems to me that the Indian establishment failed to anticipate the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government. It is, nevertheless, necessary to remind ourselves of the common interests and collaborative possibilities between our two nations," he wrote.

He wrote that Chie...