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1. I honestly have never heard of Bangladeshi immigration to India. Definitely not from my region, Sylhet in the north-east. Half of Sylhet is in the UK and Sylhetis back home go to either the UK, GCC and some even Italy, but India...never heard of anyone. Are there people from other parts of...

1. To be quite frank India is a different country and nation so will always be regarded as different. Even if countries have the same religion but different ethnically they can view each other as an "other", just with the commonality of a shared religion. Pakistan and Iran have the same...

1. The Pakistani hatred towards India has a racial aspect to it and is not just based on hatred of Hindus. Pakistanis (Punjabis/Pashtuns) dislike Indic Mohajirs and view them as darker and inferior despite them being Muslim, we all know their genocidal hatred for "fellow Muslims", Bengalis so...

I don't know about Teesta. Mamata Banerjee is pro-Jamaat and pro-Mullah in West Bengal. In Calcutta, the Muslim voice is dominated by Urdu-wala Muslims or the sort of Mullahs that are pro-Jamaat. They want to sabotage Bangladesh's success so have lobbied her for preventing an agreement on...

Just to add. 1. India helped Bangladesh to achieve independence. 2. We had another mini "second independence" struggle in the 2010s with the war crimes trials which caused huge controversy. The US-UK even seemed to be more inclined to supporting the Jamaatis. India stood by our side. I met...

Good post. You're totally right in everything you say. 1. Many Bangladeshis have a degree of racial inferiority, self-hate, whatever you want to call it. Not all, especially many of the Dhaka literati and elite who detest Pakistan. I've personally met one Jamaati here in London who said he...

1. The BNP-Jamaat alliance are bad news for Bangladesh for many reasons. a: They are slaves of Pakistan and we would geo-politically be a colony of Pakistan ordered to be hostile to India, thus damaging our relations with a giant consumer market of 1 billion customers and rapidly developing...

By the way out of Pakistan's 3 Muslim "neighbours" (Bangladesh is nowhere near Pakistan but we were federated with that country), all 3 prefer India to Pakistan. 1. Afghanistan prefers India to Pakistan whom it accuses of sponsoring terrorism and destabilizing the country. 2. Iran prefers...

You are right. Bangladeshi society seems to be like this. 1. One section view 71 like the Jews view the holocaust and the Armenians view their ethnic cleansing. A horrific monolithic defining event which can never be forgotten. This is more the elite members of society including those less...

I totally understand what you are saying and don't disagree at all. Not everyone in Bangladesh is like this and the majority have bitter memories of 1971, but then again the Vietnamese do business with the Americans now, the Algerians with the French, the Japanese are allies with the Americans...

1. Not really. The ISI's biggest Bangladeshi assets are Khaleda Zia and her son as well as Jamaat e Islami, who will always be loyal to Pakistan, no matter what. 2. In 2009 a lot of the ISI network in Bangladesh was apparently dismantled. This was never made public and I have found out about...

1. I have no idea if this is true. It could be true, it may not. 2. However if it is true then it's clear Indian intelligence is exposing Pakistan via local news outfits. The purpose of this is to inform the ISI that India knows what's going on and to inform a wider audience. 3. The current...