India and Bangladesh each have formidable challenges in providing adequate supplies of fuel and power to their populations. In 2005 they jointly agreed in principle to look at the construction of a Myanmar-Bangladesh-India pipeline to provide their consuming publics natural gas from Myanmar. Concurrent with this the Chinese entered the race for the construction of a Myanmar-China pipeline. Well, due to what contributor Varigonda Kesava Chandra calls the lack of convergence in their national energy security policies India and Bangladesh have found themselves on the short end of the Myanmar pipeline stick.