New Delhi, May 16 -- In the deep folds of South Asian geopolitics lies a fragile corridor, a lifeline for the Indian Union - the Siliguri Corridor, infamously termed the "Chicken's Neck". This slender, vulnerable strip of land-barely 22 km wide-connects mainland India to its seven northeastern states. It is not just geography that converges here, but also the overlapping anxieties of power, sovereignty, and subversion. As regional tensions simmer and political agitation in Bangladesh deepens, the strategic anxieties surrounding this corridor have become more than a cartographer's concern-they have turned into real, volatile tremors across diplomatic tables.

At the core of this tectonic shift is Bangladesh, the land of martyrs and a natio...