India, July 15 -- Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina recently announced that she will return to Dhaka by December this year. "They may arrest me on my return, they may even kill me . still, I have to go," she maintains. Why would a septuagenarian autocrat ousted in a popular uprising, living in exile and sentenced to death in absentia, want to return home where she remains much reviled? Other than signalling care for her imprisoned loyalists, Hasina has a more compelling reason to return: "If death comes, I want it to come on my own soil, where my parents are buried and where their blood was shed." That she does not want to remain in exile is understandable. What is less clear is what underpins the six-month notice. Why not re...