First, Bangladesh has three main types of thinking: they have East Pakistani, for whom only the flag has changed, those who have formed the Hiphajot al Islam, those who kill liberal bloggers, and those who assault coffee shops where these liberals are to be found.
Second, they have the sorts who want to make money. This is an enormous segment, and they, like us, are willing to abandon every principle to get to their targets of social status, earning and stability.
Third, they have, as in India, a minuscule number of liberals (they have no communists worth talking about after Maulana Bhashani), who is always an endangered species.
Besides these civilian factions, there are two military factions - two separate ones. First, there is the vindictive and very, very dangerous Bangladesh Rifles, who are trigger-happy and even mounted a coup against their own military and against Sheikh Hasina, killing some very senior military people during the uprising.
Second, the military itself, primarily, the Army, is clearly focused on getting ahead in life.
What will happen after Sheikh Hasina?
Nobody knows.
The biggest enemy of India, Khaleda Zia, is a washed-out politician. They will be a thorn in India's side if their equivalents ever come to power. However, strangely enough, it was under Sheikh Hasina that the murder of 16 BSF troopers took place, more than 20 years ago. In her second administration, Sheikh Hasina took a tough stand from the outset and instilled stern discipline on the Bangladesh Rifles, who had meanwhile rocked the whole of Bangladesh with their attempted coup.
What emerges is that there are a series of power blocs, and all that will be done after Sheikh Hasina is no longer in power is a matter of the calculus between these blocs. It is impossible to predict.
India needs to replace BSF with a border monitoring authority that is more reliable, better trained and equipped to monitor better with fewer human resources. That is a human engineering problem that it is unlikely that our bureaucracy will be able to undertake. The future is bound to be subject to greater friction than is prevalent today, under the iron rule of Sheikh Hasina.