Another Bangladesh emerging from Bay of Bengal.

[dray]

There are obviously different definitions for the term 'nation', if you really knew any of them, you'd have never argued that India is a nation... It's rather a country of different nations, as somebody quite beautifully explained in one of the earlier posts. And I guess it's in India's best interest to not present itself as a 'nation' as it would pretty much kill the spirit of one of your national motto 'Unity in Diversity'... Anyway, that's totally a different discussion altogether...

Frogs of the well telling the sea that it is not sea but a union of many wells. Quite understandable from frogs' perspective.

 

[~Phoenix~]

You must be young as you seem naive.

Do you have any idea that all this would lead to is Indian domination of the whole of South Asia?

Why would we want to antagonise our soon-to-be superpower friend China by jumping into a fully
fledged military alliance with India against China?

Let us start building mutually beneficial trade relations and leave it at that.

I think there is a country called Pakistan -.- and it never hurts to put SAARC close to China...

One word....Kashmir!
Even if we settle our differences with Indians and Pakistanis...they are not going to settle their differences anytime soon....a military union is out of the question...at best(and it is still being very optimistic) we could go for some kind of free trade agreement.

Thats the biggest obstacle...

 

[extra terrestrial]

I'm talking about it from the perspective of Indian Bengalis who integrate with India (since they are Indian) a whole lot better than Bangladeshis ever would. Again @Rain Man and @Roybot are the people to talk about this in more detail.

Well, there's nothing to talk about from the perspective of Indian Bengalis since in most cases migrants are always willing to integrate with their hosts, naturally, the onus is on them as they are the needy ones. But the hosts are not bound to receive the migrants positively, which is why my focus is on the host communities.

Sure but if you factor in the size of the rest of India, the time these migrations would occur over and the framework already put in place by the Bengali community....and account for the trajectories the Indian cities and economy overall are on.....its not a drastically immense number either.

Okay now we seem to be getting on track, the bold part sounds interesting. Could you tell me what sort of frameworks are in place for Climate Change adaptation by both the provincial government of West Bengal and the central government of India?

Frogs of the well telling the sea that it is not sea but a union of many wells. Quite understandable from frogs' perspective.

Your mawkish comments only look good in school text books... not in constructive discussions...

 

[Nilgiri]

Okay now we seem to be getting on track, the bold part sounds interesting. Could you tell me what sort of frameworks are in place for Climate Change adaptation by both the provincial government of West Bengal and the central government of India?

I meant more along the lines of the stuff Bengali people have set up all across the country by migrating there and setting up communities etc.

No idea what WB has been doing on climate change front.