The only ethnic group in South Asia brave enough to forge their own nation.
A nation created out of fallout of other two countries; India and Pakistan where India occupied eastern province of Pakistan and handed it over to rebels to ensure its security on eastern front.
It means we don’t have to expand money and energy on separatist movements.
LOL, you have separatist groups bro.
Our politics is not poisoned by ethnic and religious bigotry.
Bangladesh is essentially an ethnic absolutist and Islamist society which is like any Islamic society. Essentially any Islamic country in world has either wiped out or is in process of wiping out non-Muslims from their country.
Even more exceptional is how we evolved into an independent nation.
Independent? LOL Bangladesh can't make any policy unilaterally on it's own. It's India's semi protectorate like Bhutan.
We first escaped British India by joining Pakistan.
You didn't plan anything to make a Bengali nation later yo.
You joined North and Northwest Indian Muslims in making Pakistan and they kicked you out.
Among the pedestals of Pathans, Kashmiris, Punjabis, Sindhis, Balochis, Bengalis and Bihairs, last two were treated worst.
We then left Pakistan through an independence struggle where a mere 25k+ Bengali Muslims died.
No but Pakistani army precisely targeted non Muslims and anti Pakistan Muslims.
This is why an overwhelming majority of Bengali Muslims aren’t bitter towards Pakistan. In fact very grateful that Pakistan was a bridge to our own Bangladesh.
Had most Bangladeshi population been anti India, Sheikh Hasina wouldn't be in power. Raqibul Muslims which are radical Islamist and pro Pakistan in general are a political sect in Bangladesh who don't have political power.
Once Raqibuls remove Hasina and come to power, Bangladesh will also start touching heights of progress and advancements like Pak.
Most countries in the world are single ethnic.
Those that aren’t are violent.
That doesn't explains the cases in Latin America, Africa and Europe.
Our forefathers conquered and owned Bengal, Bihar, Orissa to Assam to a piece of Arakan.
No, Cenral Asians conquered it. Your Bengali forefathers were which were enslaved, killed, violated and converted brutally. Those who could survive live in west Bengal today.
Pak army took great care of Mujib and released him unharmed.
Off course they needed their large chunk of west Pakistani land held by India along with 93,000 soldiers.
Hinduvta crap cannot erase history recorded in technicolour.
Hindutva doesn't care about Bangladesh. Stop bringing irrelevant things to fend off logic.
Dhakaya uni is a trash. Full of chetona bastards. Have zero sympathy.
It was also a commie hotbed in the 70s.
I hate commies.
That's what a true tolerant Bangladeshi/Pakistani Muslim I was talking about.
You haven't failed me.
Pakistan and BD must absolutely cooperate. We have the same and absolutely surmountable enemy.
Somehow, Bangladeshi government doesn't see India as enemy.
These are only Bangladeshi online crowd who find it cool and elevating their status to be an enemy of India. Bangladesh doesn't even get attention except some stupid reasons.
The best response to hindutva in india is a strong economy. BD is one of the largest importer of indian goods and source of foreign remittences. Hindutva will be tamed by trade and interdependence. No one in BD is pro hindutva.
We could take an anti hindu stance but what country has ever developed by disenfranchising a part of its population? BD seeks progress for all its people within its border. Our non engagement seems cowardly but even hasina has spoken out about BJP policies. Peace within our borders is the primary aim, we will see what future hold but in real politics we will forge our future and fight the battles at the right time ensuring certain victory. Very little is achieved in screaming without a plan.
I dont have any opinion on flags, what we have is fine i guess. But the historical flags are as follows. Green and red are our colours from the very beginning and remains so to date.
1. Bangladeshi economy is largely a proto industry heading towards a middle income trap (or probably a low income trap during this crisis) since textiles don't earn dividends equivalent to heavy, aerospace, electronics, shipbuilding, IT, manufacturing, financial and tech consultancy. There is no way Bangladesh can match India or even survive an Indian economic blockade.
2. Well, I can fill up this thread with disturbing videos. Bangladeshi society is quite anti Hindu. People being dragged out of homes, getting killed, raped, places of worship is very common in Bangladesh, just like any other Islamic country.
It is a massive challenge. The good news is fertility rate is now down to replacement level. What BD needs is controlled reduction in population (encouraging single/no child families) for a few decades and then stabilise somewhere under 100 million.
BD will need Singapore style highly planned, efficient urbanisation around industrial zones to be able to become a developed nation.
Look at India-Bd map and then revisit those threads. Things will start making more sense.
1. A stabilised population isn't boon but a nightmare for BD since its economy is not diversified and textile income will saturate a GDP per capita below $8,000. And since larger portion is daily wage labour, it can't be bear any other results except a havoc when population ages. You must read what happened to Latin America.
2. No, BD will have to make cities from beginning for that. Nor it has reached that stage of economic progress. It is yet to transit to industries that earn it enough revenue to begin these kind of things. It's still a sub-modern economy.
BD economy has achieved take off stage, her GDP per capita is higher than india and pakistan.
No longer, India has bounced back after corona. And since BD's forecasts are going down, gap will increase.
BD didn't achieve higher GDP/capita earlier either because of any economic progress but artificially pushing currency up which has landed BD in this forex crisis. Course correction will bring Bangladesh's GDP capita below $2000 again. Over it, given that BD's economy isn't diversified, it won't sustain near India's GDP per capita even with currency manipulation.
India will have 70% higher GDP per capita than BD and 2.5 - 3 times of Pak in two decades unless blown by a mega earthquake.
Subcontinent throughout history was never advanced or rich but it was Bengal that was rich and technologically advanced, centred on present day BD, that makes anyone think that subcontinent as a whole was ever wealthy.
That's too uneducated of you to not been through IVC, Afghanistan, South and west India, North and East India and Nepal about their inventions, literature and architecture. Bengal is mere a small portion of India's history.
BD'shis are more on the level of W Europeans and East Asians and simply a cut above anyone else.
BD is more like PNG, Kenya and Myanmar as far as level of economics, society, technology, living standards and practices are concerned.
