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Bangladesh is around the 35th largest economy in the world in PPP terms so it doesn't need to be influenced by any country. Now that Bangladesh can stand on its own two feet, we need increase our defense budget, and improve our defenses on the orders. We need to station missiles aimed at India...

Isn't there a way Bangladesh can avoid relying on India at all for power? If we rely on them for power then we will be at their mercy. They will have the ability to disrupt the country's economy at will.

Stop pretending you're Muslim. You are one of those people who is likely Hindu Bengali.

The problem is Hindu Bengalis in Bangladesh feel they have no stake, no ownership, in the entity that is Bangladesh. This is why many do not feel Bangladeshi. They will always be a lower class in the country because of their faith, much in the same way Muslims in India are an underclass in that...

There are few supposedly 'Bangladeshis' here who are actually Hindu Bengalis from India. As a Bangladeshi who wants the best for his country, we must keep our distance from India. If we become reliant on India on trade, for our power, etc. then we risk destabilisation. A Hindu India will never...

Those of us Bangladeshis residing in the West have it lucky. If Bangladesh were ever to be part of India or have an open border with them, we can simply decide to end our ties with the country. But it's the 10s of millions of Bangladeshis in Bangladesh whom I'd feel sorry for. My family goes...

Well, I think these things often take care of themselves as the economy grows. But the problem with South Asian countries is that they are highly corrupt, and often greatly mismanaged by officials who get into power in roundabout ways, usually resulting from vote rigging, voter intimidation of...

Hasina needs to be executed.

You can still build classy, spacious suburbs. Also, as Bangladesh grows economically I expect the population growth to stall and then even start coming down. I don't mean cookie-cutter homes within a grid pattern that look identical to each other, which are usually designed for low income...

I want our cities to be built by planners of great American cities so we can have Western style metros (minus the haram stuff). I have been to the Far East and I didn't like what I saw. Everything is just crammed into small space, lacking good design, that are highly livable. They just like high...

Possibly. But I would say we generally tend to be more religious than Bangladeshis elsewhere.

It's always us Sylheties that join Jihadi groups like the IS. I rarely hear about Bangaldeshis from elsewhere getting involved.

Every major city should have flyovers which people should be encouraged to use as it lessens transportation time, commute time, leads to greater productivity. It's all good and well just erecting buildings, but what good is it when the roads still look like they are remnant of the 19th century...

Al-Qaida needs to be destroyed, and I say that being a Muslim. Bangladesh does not want to have anything to do with the caliphate. We don't want anymore people in our country, heaven help us we are already overcrowded as it is. We just want to be left alone to develop into a first world country...

Agreed. Western part of Pakistan should be allowed to rejoin Afghanistan. After that, Pakistan ought to fence the border so no Afghan can get in. Pashtuns are nothing but trouble. They have stagnated Pakistan for long enough.

Yes, otherwise what will happen is certain regions of the country will want to breakaway if they feel they are being neglected by the government. And why do some of the stations on the Dhaka metro seem to have Hindu sounding names, like Chandrima, Sonargaon? We should have nothing whatsoever to...

How about something similar in Sylhet? Dhaka always gets the government funding.

India has a lot of super wealthy people who form a very significant elite and control a large chunk of the nation's wealth while the majority of people are still pretty poor. This can skew the the per capita figures and distort the real picture. Bangladesh doesn't have many extremely wealthy but...

People from West Bengal are fine to come in a very controlled manner. Let's not forget, some were forced (or felt the need to leave) out of Bangladesh leading up to and also after 1947. We should have a very strict border though. But the rest of Indians, no. Bangladesh is for Bangladeshis but...

We are not trying to prove anything of that kind, however, given our history one should be mindful of the fact that we are of diverse origins. Bangladeshis are essentially a homogenous group but with heterogenous origins. With this mind, one should assume various ancestral groupings have been...