Can India use Bangladesh's rivers to unlock its landlocked Northeast

​​India’s northeast is a prisoner of geography. Landlocked and ring-fenced by neighbours, its lone land-based connection with the rest of India is narrow—the 22-km wide ‘chicken’s neck’ in Siliguri—and strategically speaking, easy to disrupt. This means the land-based networks of transport and trade are limited, far-flung and congested.

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