India and Bangladesh have one of South Asia’s most consequential neighbourhood relationships. It is built on geography, shared history, trade, culture, and the simple fact that both nations do better when the other is stable. Yet in recent months, social media has begun to look like a battlefield—crowded with accounts that claim to speak for Bangladeshi youth while repeatedly pushing one central message: India is the enemy.

This is not ordinary criticism or political debate. It is a relentless, crisis-driven propaganda style that turns every tragedy, every flood, and every political development into the same conclusion: “India did it".

The objective is clear—manufacture distrust and create a permanent emotional distance between two societies that have lived as close neighbours for centuries.

One relationship. Two narratives.

In the real world, India–Bangladesh ties are complex but practical: border management, river sharing, connectivity, trade, power, and people-to-people links. Problems exist, and discussions are normal.

But online, a parallel narrative is being pushed—simplified, aggressive, and deliberately humiliating:

•     Bangladesh must “prove" nationalism by opposing India

•     any cooperation with India is “betrayal"

•     every crisis in Bangladesh is evidence of an Indian “plot"

•     India’s internal diversity—especially the Northeast—is used as a target for divisive........

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