Oh dear India, our closest neighbour, I am a layman, and I am here today to ask you to understand a few things regarding friendship, because I believe my golden state has been a friend of yours since its birth. While your people kill countless numbers of my folks at your borders, we let you enjoy transits at low (invisible) rates, while channels of your media swarm televisions at each and every home of our country, you never watch a single show of ours, and I could simply nag on with hundreds of similar criticisms but I know it will be in vain, because dear India, I believe you have hated us longer than necessary, and I believe it is enough now.
Your dedicated (!) son Narendra Modi is about to become the head of your sacred homeland, and his first agenda seems to be to drive Bangladeshis, well, mostly Muslims, away from your land, then possibly take away some of our land, and then probably even brand us as the indigenous population of India sometime soon.
If this is what reality looks like today, should I dare say, dear India? Should I really dare myself and say that all those years ago, during 1971, your sons came over to join us in our liberation war only to realise that they would take over us after all these years? Why does a country as large and successful as yours have the sudden hellish urge of consuming ours, I wonder?
A few days ago, I got yet another upsetting news about Bangla-speaking Muslims being driven away and running away to save themselves from being attacked by (as police authorities say) the NDFB. At that time, the death toll was already 32, and over 5,000 had escaped. On the other hand, on the same day, India had been permitted by Bangladesh (without any knowledge to the relevant ministry) to transport food items from Kolkata to Tripura using our Ashuganj port as a transit. Would you like me to go on?
Mr Modi must be really happy with both I suppose. Given his Islamophobic nature and history of violence against Muslims, what do you think, my dear friend, will happen to the Muslims of your homeland once he gets to power? I remember blabbering to someone just days ago about how Muslims from India are always better than many others, regardless of how they are portrayed in films.
And that’s not even the main question here. The main question here is, my dear friend, what will happen to the friendship we have? The way this evil power is rising up to the occasion and threatening us with all his might, how can we keep the friendship alive?
Dear India, you must remember that the last time another country tried taking over us, things did not end very well for them. Years have gone by since we have been independent, and now we have grown and are still growing. The face of the world has changed and the word “peace” stands tall everywhere. Why must we, for just a power hungry and corrupted group of crazy men, be sufferers in the long run?
I seriously don’t understand this, and I will always struggle to do so. India has been and will always be our closest neighbour, that neighbour to whom we have always provided the most important facilities in terms of business and diplomacy. We, as children, have grown up listening to Hindi songs, and our mothers and sisters can’t spend a day without watching those Hindi serials that will never make sense. Many of us even go to Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, etc for our Eid shopping. We never even ask why you guys don’t do the same because we just love the peace that has been there despite our differences. I even remember praising India in one of my previous articles for their patriotism. Why are we in agony and having to think of India as an imminent threat to our future? I cannot reach any conclusion yet, because it is simply that hard for me to imagine why, dear India, you would hate us so much.
I believe bigger world authorities should be involved in this as soon as possible. Given the radical nature of the circumstances, some kind of treaty must be made between us in order to retain the friendship we have because the world is not ending tomorrow, unless God has different plans, and neither of us can just courier our country to the North Pole and let it be. We are part of an alliance with potentials greater than the interests of the likes of Narendra Modi, and I am pretty sure we deserve a better shot at working together than just falling apart.
