Atif Choudhury is Founder and CEO of the US-Bangladesh NextGen Fellowship & Policy Institute, a Non-Resident Fellow at the Vanderbilt Center for Global Democracy, a Non-Academic Fellow at the University of South Carolina Rule of Law Collaborative, and an Academic Relations Strategist at the Qatar Cultural Attache Office in Washington DC.
A functional India-Bangladesh relationship -- built on mutual respect and interests -- is an economic and geo-strategic imperative. Otherwise, India’s fears of “strategic encirclement” risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.