@Bengal_Tiger u probably overlook the regrets that India could have annexed parts of BD that are of strategic importance, in order to broaden the Silguri chicken neck corridor and access to seaports for its NE, as pointed out by a few posters in hindsight.
Gulping the whole BD down makes no sense. But grabbing the key parts is supposed to have least resistance or manageable in a good timing, like Israel did to Golan Heights of Syria and a bit of Lebanon.
BD to India is unlike what Mexico is to US or vice versa. Other than absorbing a continuously massive immigration US also provides enormous investment and markets for Mexico under NAFTA. But anywhere has your SAARC FTA gone in comparison?! J
ust be very level-headed and practical about prospects of all this relationship.
~Tapa talks: Orange is the new black.~
Amoy, I am.
India is our neighbour and will be our neighbour, this is a physical reality which cannot be changed.
Our neighbours are not Saudi Arabia, Turkey or Pakistan but India.
We can chose to have antagonistic relations with a nuclear giant of over 1 billion people or we could be "level-headed and practical" and try to create a friendly relationship based on trade and co-operation.
India has no interest in annexing us, that's a fact.
The only people who benefit from unnecessary India-Bangladesh antagonism are of course the Pakistanis who are striving to do this via their local agents, the BNP and Jamaat.
No offence but as someone Chinese, I can't help but suspect you wish me to have a more hostile attitude towards India due to the Sino-Indian rivalry. Just as China's smaller neighbours should work to having good relations with China another nuclear giant, territorial giant and economic giant rather than a hostile one the same applies to India-Bangladesh relations.
Anyway in my opinion the best friends of Bangladesh are Japan, China, South Korea in that order. Malaysia could come a fourth, our relations with Thailand are quite strong and 22% of our imports come from them, I have no fantastic delusions of support from the so-called "Muslim world", especially since "Islamists" in these states actively campaign against Bangladesh and support pro-Pakistan radicals involved in the genocide of my people in 1971 e.g. Saudi has imposed a labour ban on us since 2008, this was due to Jamaati (and most likely Pakistani) pressure.
This is coming from someone who speaks Arabic, prays 5 times a day i.e. me.