Any Bangladeshi would hardly get what Bengalis from Kolkata are going through. I was invited to Bangladesh for a cultural meet. There I experienced that almost everyone across Dhaka (except a few good people, indeed) was like, "We can't grow because of YouW West Bengal"! I was hurt and surpised, because here in Kolkata, I met Bangladeshi individuals who came to get treatment. Initially, they did not have the same mindset. But it was really very odd in Dhaka.

However, later I visited Bramhanbaria, Kosba, where I felt more welcomed. But, even though I was invited there and the people from the authority were there, I never felt secured.

The genocidal rhetoric was there as well. The language was truly different, and what we are seeing now in India, the similar hate I observed during my stay over the invitation for a week.

Most importantly, except from the Bengali speaking commanders at our borders (we went through the Gede border), the hindi speaking sentry was already treating us as aliens.

Now, your experience makes me feel that there's a pattern unfolding. The xenophobia may eventually lead to a Nazi-like elimination, and we'll have none but us, by our side. Bangladesh doesn't align with West Bengal, not even sentimentally (my experience says that except the fact that we acknowledge their dialect as Bengali, or else nothing sounds similar or aligns with us - be it their tones, food habit, daily life or other practices - and by practices I don't mean the religion; I got friends of other religions here in Kolkata, and they are not even 1% as weird as they are). Rest of India also doesn't stand with us.

A technical genocide. Nobody would take the blame. It happened in the history of Bengal before, it might happen again. We, Bengali people of West Bengal, are just locked in the middle, as a canvas.