Amitav Ghosh traces back to the lineage of nutmegs originating in the Banda Islands to argue how colonisation deeply influences the geopolitics even in the contemporary world, a violent phenomenon that has led to natural disasters linked to climate change.

The High Commission of India in Dhaka arranges a cycle rally to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

This is not the first time the cow has become mixed up with politics. Conflicts over cow slaughter sparked religious riots in India.

An ascendant Hindu nationalist group wants minority Muslims and Christians to accept that India is a nation of Hindus, and is pushing some of them to convert.

In 1946-47, Mahatma Gandhi spent more than three months in Noakhali, now part of Bangladesh, dousing the flames of communal violence that had engulfed the district