Next Door Boor

• A perception of taking them for granted.
  
  
• The big-brother attitude it displays. (For instance, Colombo was notified barely 48 hours before Sinha boarded his flight.)
  
  
• Its insistence on the principle of reciprocity from smaller neighbours.
  
  
• Unwilling to go the extra mile to correct its trade imbalances with all its neighbours.

By V. Sudarshan, Arshad Mahmud in Dhaka, Yubaraj Ghimire in Kathmandu and Lasantha Wickrematunge in Colombo