What is the general feeling when people call a bengali (from India) as a Bangladeshi?

When I have asked this general question in one of the online platforms (platform to questions and connect with people who contribute unique insights and quality answers), I have found some interesting and factual answers which I think I should share with my audience.

Sudip Chaudhuri lived in West Bengal, India

The problem is most people from the North and Western parts of India are totally ignorant about this difference. You cannot get angry, you can only pity this ignorance !! Same about our language. To them, Bangla means ' ami tomake bhalobashi', etc., etc. Most often forget Bangla is also the sweetest language of the world and literature wise is one of the richest languages in the world too. Why care of what some moron feels about us!

Snehasish Deb Sharma lives in India 

Maybe this is the honorary or shameful (depends upon the individual) title given by our north and western Indian counterparts. I don't know whether they deliberately do that or cannot distinguish.5 years back, while I went to Delhi, one of the hotel boys was asking me about wherefrom we come and simple chitchat was going on. After listening that we are from West Bengal, he said:” oh, so you people are from Bangladesh”.I don't know how did he assumed that as we r all Hindu so not any of the females with us was in burkha and I also told him that we came to Delhi after our pilgrimage of Haridwar and I was asking them about our next journey to Mathura! These are the ignorance about own country people. Not only us, many of them assume that all South Indians are Madrasi, but northeasterners are also Chinese, etc, etc. Maybe they can have problems differentiating with the Bengali Muslims of Malda, Murshidabad but it is not, even they call it every Bengali irrespective of their religion which is a very bad thing, So, it hurts when your own countrymen decide your nationality and tag your nationality with another country.

Kabir Suman

It is considered disrespectful. I know several incidents, where brawl erupted because someone called an Indian Bengali a Bangladeshi.

Shantanu Sanyal

That's an insult we are only Indian if someone says that it means he or she has prejudice to a particular community.

If you will ask my reaction to this specific question I would say, Agreed!! I don’t understand why people from northern and western India poke Bengalis as we can only be a part of Bangladesh.

Even my past experience speaks the same thing about the northern part of India, when I was working in a StartUp company, they used to laugh and call us as like agaye Bangladeshi. I think they need some kind of teaching regarding Bengali culture and Bengalis, they have zero knowledge about Bengali's. We are originally from India. Just like we respect you, your culture, you ought to respect the feelings of our culture !! And the worst part is they only point us like “Macchi Bhhaat khabo”. Strange!!We can also cook different dishes without including fish in every dish. 

We have to pity them as they have less knowledge of our achievements and yes our great "freedom fighters". Please don't call us or put the tagline "darpok (coward)", please read the history of Bengal, the great Subhas Chandra Bose, and the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature Rabindranath Tagore.

Now the question is we don't hate Bangladeshi we have huge respect for them. And we aren't pointing out some people or some religion, but it hurts when anyone decides our nationality and tag our nationality with another country.