Readers will recall that after the reports that he had sent to the President and to successive prime ministers as governor of West Bengal had failed to adduce even letters of acknowledgement, TV Rajeswar, at present the Governor of Uttar Pradesh, had gone public with his warnings. He had warned that the way we were shutting our eyes, a real prospect had arisen that, after Pakistan and Bangladesh, a third Islamic Republic would be carved out in the sub-continent. In important articles in The Hindustan Times, he had drawn pointed attention to the districts bordering Bangladesh, and the vast and strategic region whose demographic composition was getting changed.