In recent months, a toxic wave of rhetoric has swept across Bangladesh’s digital, political, and military spheres. What was once a nation born out of the ashes of genocide, nurtured into life by the resolute support of India, is now being shamelessly bitten by the very hands that fed it. A cabal of armchair generals, self-proclaimed geopolitical analysts, discredited ex-politicians, and social media charlatans have made it their mission to demonize India with concocted conspiracies, inflammatory propaganda, and delusional geopolitical assumptions.
These pseudo-intellectuals—barely able to distinguish a map from a meme—are now crying wolf over India’s Siliguri Corridor, commonly referred to as the “chicken’s neck”, presenting it as some strategic weakness that could be easily severed, thereby isolating the Seven Sisters of Northeast India. These hollow theories, pumped into echo chambers and Telegram groups, are strategically laughable and malicious in intent. They aim to plant seeds of enmity between two historically bonded nations while giving undue relevance to Communist China and a directionless, diplomatically bankrupt Pakistan.
Who are these so-called experts? Washed-up colonels with YouTube channels, self-declared “defence analysts” with no training or publication history, and failed bureaucrats turned bloggers who are desperate for validation. Their collective aim seems to be to distort facts, insult intelligence, and rekindle the ashes of hostility.
Let’s not kid ourselves. India’s security establishment, despite being the target of these baseless fears, has not even dignified this nonsense with a response. Why? Because the world’s real strategists, historians, and geopolitical minds are laughing—loudly and collectively. Laughing at the absurdity of these claims. Laughing at how these narratives could gain traction in a country born out of India’s blood, arms, and humanitarian embrace in 1971. And above all, baffled by the betrayal of collective memory.
The reality is apparent: Bangladesh would not exist without India. That is not a matter of opinion—it is a fact written in the blood of Indian soldiers, in the refugee camps of Kolkata, and the geopolitical daring of Indira Gandhi’s government. India gave Bangladesh more than military support—an identity, a voice, and a future. That very future is now being clouded by the vitriol of a new breed of pro-Islamist, anti-India provocateurs masquerading as thinkers.
The danger is not in their arguments—it’s in their audience. When lies are repeated often enough, even baseless ones gain traction among the impressionable. That’s why Bangladesh’s sensible, patriotic, and historically aware citizens must speak up, denounce this ungrateful rhetoric, and reject the hijacking of their national identity by agenda-driven mouthpieces.
Bangladesh and India are bound by geography, history, blood, and sacrifice. Let not a few loudmouths—driven by religious delusion, ideological confusion, and personal desperation—ruin the essence of that relationship. The India that helped birth Bangladesh deserves better than backstabbing and baseless accusations. And the Bangladesh that emerges with honour must not sell its soul to the bankrupt fantasies of failed states and fading ideologies.
