Our identity crisis
I supported Lankan team in ICC World Cup final and wished they had won to see the Indians wince. The unmitigated Indian hegemony over Bangladesh in the form of lopsided trade balance and treaties and her wanton killings of Bangladeshis at the border and her merciless strangulation of international rivers that flows into Bangladesh turned me against India.
However, I always admire the light of confidence that shine on the Indian faces. I think all Indians have got an identity. But we still quarrel over whether we are Bengali or Bangladeshi, secular or religious or humanists in nature and if Muslim, which version of Islam do we follow? I wonder when we will get back our identity as a vibrant country characterized with religious tolerance and rule of law.
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