INDIA MUST RUSH ALL KINDS OF HELP TO BANGLADESH IN THIS HOUR OF CRISIS. INDIA IS IS ITS IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOUR, AND IS LOGISTICALLY INDIA IS THE ONLY COUNTRY THAT CAN EFFECTIVELY GIVE TIMELY HELP. WHETHER SHORTSIGHTED POLITICIANS LIKE IT OR NOT, INDIA IS THE MOST DOMINANT POWER IN THE SUBCONTINENT AND SHOULOD ALWAYS ACT SYMPATHETICALLY TO ITS NEI9GHBOURS LIKE BANGLADESH, BHUTAN, NEPAL, PAKISTAN, SRILANKA, THAILAND, AND MIANAMAR. GEO-POLITICAL REALITY REQUIRES THAT INDIA SHOULD LIVE UP TO ITS PRE-EMINENT POSITION. IF INDIA NEGLECTS THIS REALITY, IT SHOULD NOT BLAME IF CHINA, SOUDIA ARABIA OR PAKISTAN STEP IN TO GIVE HELP. IT WAS THIS LOGIC THAT MADE INDIA TO RUSH TO HELP BANGLADESH AGAINST GEN. YAHYA KHAN'S ARMY IN 1971. TRUE, IN OUR LIFE MANY PEOPLE WHO TAKE HELP FROM US DON'T FORGET IT, BUT BEGIN TO HATE US FOR NO REASON. HISTORY IS REPLETE WITH EXAMPLES WHEN SONS EARNING HIGH INCOMES ILL-TREATING THEIR PARENTS OR ELDER BROTHERS WHO HAD GIVEN THEM HIGH EDUCATION . BUT FOR THIS REASON, NEITHER THE PARENTS NOR THE ELDER SIBLINGS SHOULD NEGLECT THE YOUNGER ONES.
