Amid literary fervor at the Jaipur Literature Festival, Bangladesh’s envoy to India, Riyaz Hamidullah, stepped into the spotlight. He joined the ‘Asian Drama’ panel with Professor C. Raja Mohan, Suhasini Haidar, Navtej Sarna, and Shubhijit Roy, turning heads with optimistic notes on bilateral futures.
Hamidullah took to X to laud the event, thanking Sanjoy K. Roy for nurturing a vibrant assembly of creators and thinkers. ‘Two decades on, it’s a joy to contribute to discussions on imagined and actual matters,’ he wrote, advocating active listening as a core trait.
Yet, shadows loom over India-Bangladesh relations under Yunus’s interim rule. New Delhi’s alarm over Hindu minority murders has intensified, coupled with demands for impartial polls. Experts foresee reconciliation once democracy returns to Dhaka.
Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister Radoslaw Sikorski brought a European lens, attending with his wife and sharing frontline accounts of Russia-Ukraine tensions, Poland’s crisis management, and Europe’s recalibration. In a deep-dive with Navtej Sarna, he explored multifaceted shifts.
These interactions mirror strengthened India-Poland bonds. The 11th FOC in New Delhi, led by Siby George and Władysław T. Bartoszewski, greenlit enhanced collaboration across security, S&T, cyber, and AI domains. Terrorism countermeasures were reaffirmed, with Poland pushing for an expedited India-EU FTA.
Reviewing the 2024-2028 action plan from PM Modi’s visit, the statement highlighted Poland’s trade preeminence in Central-Eastern Europe. As Sikorski wraps his three-day Jaipur sojourn before heading to Delhi, JLF proves a fertile ground for diplomacy intertwined with discourse.