India, March 28 -- Bangladesh relations have seen ups and downs in the past 50 years, though it has stabilized somewhat since Sheikh Hasina became Bangladesh Prime Minister in 2008.

New Delhi has taken in its stride, Dhaka's growing economic relations with Beijing through the latter's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). On her part, Sheikh Hasina has curbed the activities of anti-India and anti-Hindu Islamic radicals and terrorists and has completely stopped sheltering Assamese separatists. Though, India's failure to deliver on the Teesta river waters sharing issue continues to irk Dhaka, it appears to have put it on the backburner.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's two-day visit to Bangladesh, which concluded on Saturday (27), was a hi...