The birth of the Sounth Asian Asoociation For Regional Co-oparation in 1985
marked a new beginning for the seven South Asian countries- India, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Maldives. Foe the first time these
countries mad an institutionalized effort to forge multilateral co-operation
among them. But, even after 20 years of existence of the SAARC, the leaders of
the South Asian countries are usually much more comfortable in dealing with the
countries outside the region than they are woth themselves, and for the past for
them remains the present.
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Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury is an ICSSR Fellow at the Centre for