India, Oct. 30 -- After a dramatic escape on a helicopter from her Dhaka palace amid a student-led protest last year, former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina has been living a reclusive life in Delhi since August 2024.

Since her ouster, an interim government led by Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus has been governing the country and has pledged to hold national elections in February 2027, while she leads an nondescript life in India's capital New Delhi.

The protest and the subsequent invasion of the protesters on her Dhaka palace was a rather brutal reminder of the 1975 military coup that claimed the lives of her father and three brothers while she was abroad with her sister.

Hasina's life in exile is peaceful, though she year...