a cool thing about the tin bigha corridor is that even tho it isnt a
real condominium territory with joint international sovereignty like
the worlds 6 other known condo areas
it is still a pretty fair likeness of an actual time share condo
& thus its 4 alternating tripoints
situated as they are at the 4 corners of this football field shape
& suggesting the image of 4way flashers blinking on & off there in
unison as the territory changes hands
are perhaps more nearly real than imaginary
so meet bdbdininn bdbdinine bdbdininw & bdbdinins
the worlds first known complete news tour of tripoint clones
& since there is evidently nothing else in the world anything like
them
they do comprise yet another perfect set of 4 & only 4 members for
the bp invitational square dance of world rarities
m
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "lnadybal" <lnadybal@c...> wrote:
> I just found this in a book review for a book entitled Indo-Bangla
> Mistrust:
>
> The Tin Bigha Corridor is no larger than a football field. The
> Nehru-Noon accord of September 3, 1958 provided for a
straightforward
> exchange of enclaves between India and East Pakistan. A formal
> agreement was signed thereafter on September 10, 1958. Besides the
> exchange, Berubari was to be split horizontally and equally. But
the
> notification in respect of Berubari was never issued by India.
Under
> the 1974 accord between Indira Gandhi and Mujibur Rehman, India
agreed
> only to lease in perpetuity to Bangladesh an area of approximately
178
> metres by 85 metres near Tin Bigha to connect Bangladesh with its
> enclave Dahagram. Agreement on the terms of the lease was reached
in
> 1982. Only in 1992 could it be implemented.
>
> The same holds good for the two newly formed tiny deltaic islands
> which India calls New Moore and Bangladesh calls South Talpatty.
They
> were discovered by a U.S. satellite in 1974 and became an issue in
the
> maritime boundary talks in 1979. Bangladesh claims that in May 1979
> Prime Minister Morarji Desai agreed with the Deputy Prime Minister
of
> Bangladesh, who had called on him, to hold a joint survey. However,
on
> April 9, 1980 Indira Gandhi claimed that the islets belonged to
India.
>
> They lie at the mouth of the Hariabhanga River
which
> separates the two countries. They are mudflats with no human or
animal
> life. In 1974 India and Bangladesh signed an agreement on the
> demarcation of the land boundary between the two countries. A
maritime
> boundary agreement is yet to be concluded. It will define Bangla-
> desh's Exclusive Eco-nomic Zone (EEZ), sandwiched as the
country
> is between India and Myanmar.