New Delhi, Nov. 19 -- India cannot and should not extradite Sheikh Hasina to Bangladesh, as its officials have demanded, in the wake of the death sentence passed against the ousted prime minister by that country's International Crimes Tribunal.

That said, New Delhi must build good relations with our eastern neighbour, which is actively being wooed by China and Pakistan into an anti-India alliance.

There is an active minority of Islamists in Bangladesh who show hostility to India and its own secular Constitution.

The head of Bangladesh's interim administration that took charge after a violent uprising against the Hasina government last August, Muhammad Yunus, had been penalized by the Sheikh Hasina regime and doesn't seem charitably inc...