The cover of the gifted book, titled 'The Art of Triumph: Graffiti of Bangladesh's New Dawn', instantly sparked a furore on social media due to its India connection

The cover of the gifted book, titled 'The Art of Triumph: Graffiti of Bangladesh's New Dawn', instantly sparked a furore on social media due to its India connection

The cover of the gifted book, titled 'The Art of Triumph: Graffiti of Bangladesh's New Dawn', instantly sparked a furore on social media due to its India connection

Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus has stoked yet another controversy in India after recently gifting a book to the chairman of Pakistan’s Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (JCSC), General Sahir Shamshad Mirza.

The cover of the book, titled 'The Art of Triumph: Graffiti of Bangladesh's New Dawn', instantly sparked a furore on social media, with netizens pointing out that it featured a distorted map of Bangladesh—including all of India's northeastern states, West Bengal, Myanmar's Arakan State, and parts of Bihar, Jharkhand, and Odisha.

The title also points to the 2024 coup that overthrew the Sheikh Hasina government, with the distorted map referring to 'Greater Bangladesh', a concept championed by Dhaka-based Islamist outfit, Sultanat-e-Bangla.

This distorted map first surfaced in April this year, after it was displayed at an exhibition at the University of Dhaka on Pohela Baisakh (Bengali New Year).

An earlier version, which included parts of West Bengal, Tripura, and Assam in the map of Bangladesh, sparked backlash online after Yunus aide Nahidul Islam floated the idea of 'Greater Bangladesh'.

"The Yusuf fangs are out," one user wrote on X.

"Bangladeshis mingling with Pakistanis was the last uno reverse I thought we'll face in this decade but alas, religion intermingled with politics leads to crazy events.

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