Come 2041, Bangladesh will not be a developed country, period.
At best, we will be a strong developing economy.
Each country is different, has different culture, different ethnicities, different religion, different national aspirations, different struggles that bind the nation together,... No two countries are the same.
As such, the meaning of developed or developing will be different for each and the challenges on the way to achieve these aspirations will also be different.
There is no point in arguing over when Bangladesh will be developed like the western world, perhaps that might never happen.
Instead of trying to be like the others, we should aspire to be something different, something of our own, something we can all be proud of, not necessarily something we can gloat about.
I don't want us to aspire to be a world super power, what I want is Bangladesh as envisioned in '71 when our forefathers laid down their lives for a free Bangladesh where everyone is able to earn an honest living and live well, irrespective of their religious or financial status.
A Bangladesh with no poverty, no child labour, no corruption, no starvation/hunger, no religious violence, no income disparity, no border killings, no land grabbing, no nepotism is what we should all be working towards not some pipedream to achieve some status or commendation by 2041 or whenever.
A Bangladesh where a mother, doesn't have to send her 9 year old to work in the brick kiln is the Bangladesh that is enough for me and that's the Bangladesh I want and the Bangladesh I'm willing to work towards.
Bashing each other here will not achieve anything, verily we haven't gotten anywhere because of this pathetic habit of ours; bashing each other, even though we share more in common than we have differences.