Bangladesh's survival hinges on how upstream countries manage shared waters.

Globally, Bangladesh is known as the land of rivers and flooding.

In 20 long years, I haven't found anyone who started “anti-India” protests by bringing up floods, till now.

There used to be more than a thousand rivers crisscrossing through Bangladesh. Many of those rivers are now lost, mostly due to human interventions.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to visit India on September 6-7 for a bilateral meeting with her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi.