India-Bangladesh: Fifty Years of Friendship is a monograph commissioned by the Indian Council of World Affairs authored by Samudra Gupta Kashyap. As India and Bangladesh celebrate fifty years of diplomatic relations, the monograph traces back the deep-rooted ties between the two countries and their growth trajectory over the last five decades. The monograph is divided into sections covering various areas including cultural, economic, social and people to people linkages. It is intended to reach out to the lay reader with an interest in foreign policy, diplomacy and India’s close and friendly ties with its eastern neighbor Bangladesh. ABOUT AUTHOR Samudra Gupta Kashyap is a Guwahati-based veteran journalist who covered Indias Northeast and the neighbourhood for nearly four decades.