Already on edge with Dhaka, New Delhi took particular note when Bangladesh's interim chief adviser Muhammad Yunus recently presented Art of Triumph: Bangladesh's New Dawn - a book celebrating the ouster of the Sheikh Hasina government - to Pakistan's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Shamshad Mirza. Yunus then amplified the moment on social media. The book's cover, which appears to depict parts of India's Northeast inside Bangladesh , and follows Yunus's repeated provocative remarks on the region, triggered concern in Delhi.

Those who know Yunus and the deliberate precision of his online messaging insist this was no oversight. Yunus had earlier touched New Delhi's raw nerve by projecting the Northeast as a landlocked region dependent on Bangladesh. One of his advisers who

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