The suggestions made by two former Foreign Secretaries, Shyam Saran and Shiv Shankar Menon, that India should initiate a discussion on a collective security arrangement between the major powers whose bulk of energy and trade flows through the Indian Ocean, is laudable.
Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen who is currently in the national capital but will be leaving for a teaching assignment to a US university shortly, is disillusioned about her return to Bangladesh or India permanently in the near future.