New Delhi/IBNS, Nov. 8 -- A forthcoming book has unveiled a gripping new account of how a single phone call from India altered the course of Bangladesh's modern political history - and ultimately savedSheikh Hasina's life.

According to Inshallah Bangladesh: The Story of an Unfinished Revolution - authored by Deep Halder, Jaideep Mazumdar, and Sahidul Hasan Khokon, and published by Juggernaut - the former Bangladeshi Prime Minister was still inside her official residence, Ganabhaban, in Dhaka around 1:30 p.m. on August 5, 2024, when she received a crucial call from "a top official in India she knew well."

Within minutes of that exchange, Hasina made the life-saving decision to flee, a choice the authors describe as the one that kept her ...