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Bond across border, revived 40 years on.

Md Ali Sarkar, 66, of Baliamari village in Kurigram district, Bangladesh, had not only taken an active part in the Bangladesh liberation war of 1971, but also trained in Cooch Behar under the Indian Army on how to use a gun.

Last week, he was almost inside India again, but this time not for training under the Indian Army. Sarkar is among 25 petty traders and shopkeepers of Baliamari who have been selected by the Bangladesh government to trade in the Kalaichar border haat between the two countries that has just been reopened.

“I remember coming to the border haat even when we were East Pakistan. We used to buy a lot of jackfruit from the Garo and Hajong people on the Indian side and carry them to our markets in bullock-carts,” said Sarkar, recalling the pre-1971 days when the weekly border haat here used to be a humming marketplace.

The border haat, which was reopened jointly by Commerce Minister Anand Sharma and his Bangladeshi counterpart Md Faruk Khan, has kicked off the revival of as many as 80 such haats that had existed between Meghalaya (in those days the Garo and Khasi Hills districts of Assam) till 1971.

Bond across border, revived 40 years on - Indian Express
 
I have no issues if poor Bangladeshi come over to trade in an informal legal way.

We were once one.

Culture, heritage, history is thicker than water.

If we can help, we must.

I am sure we too go to their Haats.

It is mutually beneficial to those who could not care less for these man made divides.

For instance, I will never forget my Makhun Mama and Mr Abdullah who was a DIG in East Pakistan many year ago when my grandfather was Head of the Department of Botany in Dacca University. They were a family to us.

This new generation are the ones who wallow and gloat in the divides!

Religion will not change, the boundaries will not change, but will culture, heritage and historical bonds change?

Those with myopia will say it would.

I may appear to have a distaste for much of what is penned in the posts. but it, in no way, means I do not wish you all well and all the very best.

Stop boasting over trifles (as I also say to Indians) and instead work towards greater heights!

Be honest to know where you stand. Grandstanding and dreams only diverts from the aim!
 
THEY ARE NOT POOR BANGLADESHIS... ONLY AWAMI LEAGUE ACTIVISTS HAVE BEEN SELECTED BY GOVT. TO TRADE AS REPORTED BY LOCAL NEWS MEDIA......
 
THEY ARE NOT POOR BANGLADESHIS... ONLY AWAMI LEAGUE ACTIVISTS HAVE BEEN SELECTED BY GOVT. TO TRADE AS REPORTED BY LOCAL NEWS MEDIA......

You suffer an acute inferiority complex.

I don't blame you since dream as you may, you will never be anywhere near India. Natural frustration and release of bile.

Poor is not always is a factor in economic terms.

Revisit English and maybe, if you understood it, you would realise the context.

Poor you!

Whether AL or BNP or fundamentalists of Jammat or their supporter as here, who cares. For us, you all are Bangladeshis and we don't care you comes!

Lungis are your identity. It does not differentiate political or religious groups/ clans like, let us say, the Kilts of Scotland.
 
Your finger has got stuck?

Use some ingenuity and intelligence and not repeat the same post.

Or is that deficient?

Why are you roaming around the bamboo grove with a lantern? Waiting for what? Has it not happened?
 
You suffer an acute inferiority complex.
inferiority complex?? such as?? who is superior to me?? you?? :rofl:

Poor is not always is a factor in economic terms.

you mean I have no issues if poor Bangladeshi come over to trade in an informal legal way. here you didnt mean it economically?? oh yeah??

Revisit English and maybe, if you understood it, you would realise the context.
:rofl: again english!

Lungis are your identity. It does not differentiate political or religious groups/ clans like, let us say, the Kilts of Scotland.

though i dont wear it ... i prefer lungi than dhoti. lol
 
inferiority complex?? such as?? who is superior to me?? you?? :rofl:

You of course. You and the rest of paranoid anti-India haters suffer from an acute complex that makes you feel that whatever an Indian talks is against Bangladesh. Here, you proved it yourself:

you mean I have no issues if poor Bangladeshi come over to trade in an informal legal way. here you didnt mean it economically?? oh yeah??

Now what do we make out of this? Tiki said poor to a village simpleton living on your side of the border. Did he exaggerate it? Aren't villagers in south Asian countries poor? Come on now.
 
THEY ARE NOT POOR BANGLADESHIS... ONLY AWAMI LEAGUE ACTIVISTS HAVE BEEN SELECTED BY GOVT. TO TRADE AS REPORTED BY LOCAL NEWS MEDIA......

The same AL fought with India for liberation of Bangladesh. It is not surprising that you hate India and AL! :lol:

'local' media!
 
You of course. You and the rest of paranoid anti-India haters suffer from an acute complex that makes you feel that whatever an Indian talks is against Bangladesh. Here, you proved it yourself:

you mean I have no issues if poor Bangladeshi come over to trade in an informal legal way. here you didnt mean it economically?? oh yeah??

Now what do we make out of this? Tiki said poor to a village simpleton living on your side of the border. Did he exaggerate it? Aren't villagers in south Asian countries poor? Come on now.

err! i am saying the same thing.... But tiki said he did not said it with economical meaning... Go through the thread again.....
 
The same AL fought with India for liberation of Bangladesh. It is not surprising that you hate India and AL! :lol:

'local' media!

So you mean i hate 1971??? Good try. Not true though! I am not Jamati. BNP supporter.. its core was formed by freedom fighters who fought alongside Zia. mainly East Bengal regiment. I AM PROUD OF 1971
 
The same AL fought with India for liberation of Bangladesh. It is not surprising that you hate India and AL! :lol:

'local' media!

and your local media part - yes ! i read it on PROTHOM ALO- i still got the copy on my hand... it is the leading paper here..
 
err! i am saying the same thing.... But tiki said he did not said it with economical meaning... Go through the thread again.....
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If you are paranoid, you will find fault also in the Creator.

Yes, go through the thread and the post.

Remember, inferiority Complex: a conviction by a jury of your fears.

Your responses are always with some imagined fear that all are sitting on the sidelines to pounce on you.

You are not that important, to be frank.
 

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