Right from the horrors of partition to the creation of Bangladesh as an independent country, there are just too many elephants in the room. The atmosphere of peace between India and Pakistan continues to be critically vitiated and it is difficult to envisage how meaningful negotiations can ever take place, writes Amb. Amit Dasgupta for South Asia Monitor.

Where the Yameen leadership in Maldives continues to be sending out signals that it would go along with all legitimate expectations of the international community on domestic peace and political stability, but subverting the due processes on the domestic front to accommodate global concerns is not what they intend to warm up to, writes N. Sathiya Moorthy for South Asia Monitor.

IS’ entry into Afghanistan is complicating the already complex conflict in the country. Challenging Taliban, and rather violently, for strategic space and prominence, the incendiary rivalry between them could very well derail the elusive peace process, writes S. Binodkumar Singh for South Asia Monitor. 

While it is reassuring to know that the softer version of Islam practicesd by a majority of Muslims in India can be an effective impediment to the spread of Wahhabism in the country, proactive measures that go beyond necessary security efforts will have to be taken to keep radicalism at bay, writes Jai Kumar Verma for South Asia Monitor.