New Delhi: A book gifted by Bangladesh’s interim head Muhammad Yunus to Pakistan’s General Shamshad Mirza, has sparked controversy. On the book cover is an abstract painting, including the nation’s flag colours, appearing to be in the shape of a map of Bangladesh, including Northeast India.

The incident comes against the backdrop of Yunus’s recent references to India’s Northeast amid Dhaka’s already strained relations with New Delhi.

Published in 2024 by the July Shaheed Smriti Foundation, the book compiles student graffiti from the July 2024 uprising that led to the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government. Earlier in September last year, Yunus presented the book Art of Triumph : Bangladesh’s New Dawn to Justin Trudeau and Jane Goodall during his visit to New York for the UN Gene

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