“Forgotten Neighbors: The Eighty-Year Ordeal of Hindus in Bangladesh”, India Fact, November 03, 2025

“This past year saw a “regime change” in Bangladesh that some have argued was engineered and orchestrated by a combination of international forces. Whatever the deep state machinations might have been, and surely there is evidence for it in the one-page advertisement taken out by former President Barack Obama in The Washington Post on September 4, 2024, and signed by 198 “global leaders,” the immediate and troublesome outcome was the targeting of Hindus in the country.

In a new film/docudrama, titled “The Bengal Files,” filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri offers viewers a gory view of what transpired in East Bengal in 1946/47 and the violence that India and the world have chosen to forget. That forgetting can shine a light on what transpired in 2024.

While there are a few books and some efforts by Hindu human rights organizations to document and report the violence against Hindus, little has come of it. What should be done now? For one, there is no comprehensive documentation of the terrors that the Hindu population has faced in Bengal over the past few centuries. Some of the documentations fail to connect the dots and identify the basic factors and the major actors behind the attempts at eliminating the Hindu population from the Bengal region……”

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