When Sheikh Hasina landed at the Hindon airbase near Delhi
on August 5, 2024, hours after resigning as Bangladesh’s prime minister, she joined a long and unusual guest list. For
more than seven decades, India has quietly opened its doors to kings,
presidents, spiritual leaders, and hundreds of thousands of ordinary people
running from war, persecution, or a mob at their gate. None of them arrived
through any formal asylum process, because India simply does not have one. Yet
the country has still...
