East India, Inc.

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The Americans want to mix oil and water.

American business is eyeing gas reserves of Bangladesh and the Indian Northeast, but have they studied the history of East South Asia?

It was a big gathering. Politicians from Bangladesh, Nepal and the northeastern states of India had converged in Calcutta along with senior executives of more than 130 US companies to attend what was called the "US Investor Summit: Emerging East". (Bhutan, though invited, chose to stay away.) The conference ended on 11 December with a call to "highlight the possibility of a new kind of trade – trading in energy, fuel and power".

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