New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- Bangladesh has seen considerable political upheaval in August. For ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the month is particularly fraught. Her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the man instrumental in the creation of Bangladesh, and most of her immediate family were slain on August 15, 1975. Almost 50 years later, on August 5, 2024, Hasina was forced to flee from Dhaka to save her life from angry mobs.

These incidents not only hurt Bangladesh, they hit the trajectory of India-Bangladesh relations hard. Earlier this month, after a couple of years in the relative obscurity of exile in India, Hasina chose the anniversary of her forced August exile to drop a political bomb, causing an upheaval in the unsettled political cl...