Mending Delhi's ties with Dhaka

Bangladesh needs to be responsive to India's sensitivities on the minority question

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Foreign secretary Vikram Misri's visit to Dhaka—the first senior Indian functionary to travel to Bangladesh since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime in August—is a welcome pause since the ties between the two neighbours have been increasingly turning cold, if not hostile. Expectedly, the conversations in Dhaka on Monday—between Misri and the head of Bangladesh's caretaker administration, Muhammad Yunus, de facto foreign minister Touhid Hossain, and Misri's counterpart, Mohammad Jashim Uddin—did not yield new ground. Both sides laid out their concerns and demands: Misri conveyed India's discomfort over the reported attack on minorities while highlighting India's support for a democratic and inclusive Bangladesh; Jashim Uddin refuted the reports of attacks as disinformation and described New D