ORPHANED: PAKISTAN & BANGLADESH

Will Yearn for Guiding Values, Identity and Inspiration.

The Cost of Cultural Severance Is Very High

1. THE NATIONS THAT LEFT HOME

🌍 Pakistan and Bangladesh were carved out of India, but they did more than redraw borders. They severed their civilizational umbilical cord. In a quest to assert political independence, they chose to abandon a shared past that stretched back thousands of years.

🌍 This disassociation has come at a price. Civilizations are not just maps and constitutions — they are memories, myths, languages, and unbroken traditions. When a nation rejects all of that, it doesn’t liberate itself. It destabilizes itself.

2. PAKISTAN: THE MIMICRY OF A MIRAGE

🌍 From its inception, Pakistan's founding principle was negation — of India, of its history, of its plurality. It reached for Arab identity as a substitute for its Indian origins. It rewrote its story around Islamic conquest and pan-Islamism, forgetting that the roots of its culture, cuisine, dress, music, and language are deeply Indian.

🌍 Its national language, Urdu, is the perfect symbol of this identity confusion — Persian script, Arabic vocabulary, but built on Sanskrit grammar. It is a stitched-together narrative that doesn’t belong fully anywhere.

🌍 Pakistan celebrates Arab heroes but has no Arab ethnicity. It borrows Persian aesthetics but speaks Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashto — all Indic languages. What emerges is a country that exists in ideological cosplay, unable to sustain a rooted civilizational narrative.

3. BANGLADESH: FROM LIBERATION TO SUBMISSION

🌍 Born from the rejection of Pakistani dominance, Bangladesh had a unique chance to reconnect with its Indic cultural roots. It was Bengali, proud, literary, and linguistically distinct. But over time, the state too has turned toward radical Islamism, not as a natural evolution, but as a reactionary identity marker.

🌍 This is a tragedy in slow motion. Islam did not originate in Bengal — it arrived many centuries after the Bengali language, culture, and dharmic traditions were established. To Islamize Bangladesh is to overwrite its own soul.

🌍 Worse still, in trying to become an Islamic nation, it risks becoming just a weaker Pakistan — without the nuclear weapons or the strategic value.

🌍 No theocratic nation without deep civilizational memory has ever become a lasting success. Bangladesh may win some headlines in the OIC, but it is losing the depth that once made it different.

4. THE COST OF SEVERANCE: IDENTITY WITHOUT ANCHORING

🌍 The consequences are visible:

• Endless identity crises

• Imported symbols

• Rising internal radicalism

• Cultural insecurity

A nation that severs its past becomes reactive, not reflective. It shouts slogans louder because it has no story to whisper.

You can change flags and policies. But without continuity, you end up with a borrowed identity that never quite fits.

5. WHO RECLAIMED THEIR PAST — AND THRIVED

🌍 Other nations that flirted with disconnection have started returning:

• Turkey once erased its Ottoman memory, now revives it.

• Japan modernized but kept Shinto and samurai codes alive.

• Vietnam preserved Confucian respect for elders, even after wars and communism.

China is perhaps the most significant case — a Communist regime that has increasingly relied on its Confucian heritage, dynastic pride, and deep civilizational sense to assert global influence. Its resilience — even in crisis — is tied to that memory.

India, despite colonization, held onto its philosophical, spiritual, and cultural identity — and it’s now resurging globally.

Those who stay rooted rise again. Those who reject their roots? They flail.

6. CONCLUSION: THE FUTURE OF ORPHANS

🌍 You can borrow flags, religions, and slogans.But you cannot transplant memory.

🌍 Pakistan and Bangladesh were born from Indian soil but have chosen to deny it. They are not Arab. Not Persian. Not even fully Islamic in their structure. Civilizationally, they are Indians in denial — trying to play roles not written for them.

A nation can lose a war and recover. But when it loses its story, its memory, and its sense of self — it becomes a shadow of others.

Until Pakistan and Bangladesh make peace with their roots — not politically, but civilizationally — they will remain in permanent identity crisis, always reacting, never leading.

🌍 The future belongs to those who remember who they are.Those without civilizational roots — like the United States — may build empires, but when crises strike, they risk emotional and moral collapse. That is what the world fears most: a powerful nation with no past to draw courage from.

— Outrageously Yours