I visited the border zero point between India and Bangladesh border.....everything was the same...the pple this side and that side...the same sky..a small and dirty drain flowwing from india to bangladesh....the language (since bangla is the main spoken language even in Tripura)....the difference were the Trucks...the brand were same Manuf. by TATA...but the front guard was there in all trucks from bangladesh and the nameplates were in Bangla unlike here in India..where we've the number written in english...the BSF (Border security force) in our side and the Bangladesh security forces that side...we were questioned by one BSF personal...interacted with him asking which side is which....he admitted even he had felt the same 'which side is which' when he first came.
The main import from Bangladesh for Tripura is stone chips...to my surprise there are no stones in tripura but pple use brick chips instead (The brick industry is a big industry here)...stones from Meghalaya(India) is sent to bangladesh...its made into small chips at Bangladesh (due to chweaper labour cost ) and sent to Tripura...all the trucks I saw had only one thing...stone chips...unloaded from the trucks form bangladesh and loaded in trucks from Tripura. Next month I plan to visit Dhaka....my passport will look lil weird to others....the fist visa stamped in of Pakistan and then Bangladesh...hahaha
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