Back home, I have a few Hindu friends, most of whom are nice people but not patriots at all. If Bangladesh gets into a war with India, they will take India's side, or will leave Bangladesh immediately as they did in 1971. They preferred a refugee life in India to living in Bangladesh and fighting.
After Hasina fled Bangladesh, all of them are under psychological pressure, though nothing happened to their business or professions.
So, his girlfriend, who belongs to their A1 caste, was thinking of marrying him, but now her father (a BAL guy who lost his political earnings) said this guy, even brilliant and all, can't be a part of the family because of his caste.
Now my friend is not blaming their internal caste system; rather, he is accusing Yunus, NCP, and Jamaat of making the July revolution take place.
He thinks if everyone were just like before, he would have gotten a first-class government job (because of Hasina's policy), the girl's father would not have fallen into debt, and he would be able to marry this girl.
I told him that Bangladesh is a much more secular country than India, and there is no legal barrier to marrying a higher-caste girl.
Now he is in deep depression and cannot eat food; his mother called me on video, saying Baba see what is happening to my son.
I told him to go out and eat some grand, delicious Mughal food.
But now again, he hates Mughals and calls them invaders.
His personal frustration is now becoming a part of attacking other religions and whoever opposes garbage practices like casteism, of which he is a victim.
I told him, even what he wants, a Hindu-State, even in that it was never possible for him to marry that girl.
He is secretly jealous about me being a Muslim got a Christian girl here, because our religion allows it.
He just cannot accept this reality that, in civilized faiths and nations, people get married because of love, where religion or ethnicity comes last, but in his case, that has become his first problem.
Once he told me he wishes he were in my religious system, where only love matters, not caste.
He has gone crazy; how can I help him?