With the assassination of Bangladeshi student leader and revolutionary Sharif Usman Hadi, India appears to have dealt a near-fatal blow to any prospect of repairing relations with its eastern neighbour. Since the popular uprising that forced Sheikh Hasina to flee to India, ties between New Delhi and Dhaka have steadily deteriorated. Anti-India sentiment has surged, manifesting in the burning of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s effigies outside the Indian embassy in Dhaka and violent clashes in which protesters attempted to breach the compound. In this highly charged atmosphere, India’s continued asylum to the former Bangladeshi prime minister has become a central grievance, a focal point for revolutionary anger that had already overturned the........

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