Britain turns Bangladesh

Rain, flood, traffic disruption, that was the real scene in England this winter.
The aristocratic Prime Minister, popularly known as Lord Cameron for his aristocratic behaviour cancelled his trip to Ramalla and Israel and moved in the flood affected areas with umbrellas on his hand.
A Swedish newspaper wrote Britain is not only flooded by Bangldeshis and Bangladeshi restaurants but it is flooded by Bangladeshi flood itself. The climate change is a favourite subject among the European intellectuals. From the sixties of last century, they had been predicting that one third of Bangladesh would be drowned in the sea. The best panacea would be immediate birth control. But Bangladesh's youth started growing their cheap labour provide most of the garments for the West, so that they do not go back to the dark age before the advent of clothes. Bangladesh claims theirs was the first country to introduce shoes, the paper wrote. But the reality is that during two centuries of hard colonial rule most Bangladeshis had neither shoes nor clothes. Yet many moved bare feet in marshy swamps with only their gamchha and mathail.
Is Britain, the former colonial master moving that way? British Empire according to many modern revisionist historians was the greatest revolution in human history. And that revolution was carried from Calcutta, the capital of British India. British India had twenty times more people than that of Britain. India's labour and resources were said to be plundered. But the tragedy was that those who were plundered did not know what they were plundered of. The British policy of divide and rule and their grass root vigilance made it possible.
The people, individuals were made mummies despite Britain's great championship of freedom and democracy.
No, flood water is not such ambiguity. It is real when it comes over the bank of the Thames. The Thames is not a mighty river like Bangladesh's Meghna which is combination of two mightiest rivers Ganges and Brahmaputra. So we cannot compare British flood to Bangladesh's. The complex reality is that when it floods, it floods whether it is in Bangladesh or in Britain. That brings havoc, suffering and death though accidental.
The biggest contingent in the HAY Festival in Dhaka, consisted of the British Bangalees both from East and West Bengal. Yes, they found a common rhyme with Bangladesh's English speaking elite which is still articulated to the old Anglo-Indian English and the behavioural pattern of the Empire. To create needs fantasies, said a British writer from an age old Calcutta family. She thought her family might have originally come from East Bengal and settled in Calcutta centuries ago. No, she was not related to the Tagores who had roots both in East and West Bengal. She said, the British Empire did not make Bangalees English speaking as the Spaniards made the Mayans Spanish speaking. Instead they would create a loyal Bengali speaking elite that would be servant of the Empire not its ruling part. This part of the Bengali elite did not consider Muslims as Bangalees though vast majority of the Bangalees were Muslims. The vehement that was created that led to the partition of India.
Despite that the post-independence Bangladesh has raised its head. According to the world Almanac 2014, Dhaka has a population of 15.3 millions, double that of London and greater than that of Karachi and Kolkata (the very old Calcutta). It is the world's sixth biggest city. No, Bangladesh is not drowned in the city but there is real possibility that England could be drowned in the melted ice of North Pole in the North Sea.