Apples and oranges

Karthik doesn’t think it’s wise to draw parallels between the India-Bangladesh border fence and the US-Mexico border fence proposal.

Bangladesh and India do not suffer from a huge economic or cultural divide like our western counterpart in this argument. The major religion might be different, but at the end of the day, we are pretty much broke and eat the same food. Around the common border, we even speak the same language…

… Then there is the problem of Bangladesh being a naturally troubled zone. It’s low lying plains would come under attack from mother nature when the smallest thing goes awry. If a threat ever arises, India will have no track of who or for that matter how many people walked into the country.