NEW DELHI: Recent pro-monarchy rallies in Nepal give the impression that 15 years after the two-century old institution was abolished by the constituent assembly, there are now moves to bring it back. But that maybe reading too much, rather one has to wait and watch how this movement pans out, says Prithvi Shrestha, senior journalist […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Recent rallies by pro-monarchy groups in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu are less about nostalgia for those days when the king ruled. Rather they reflect popular sentiment that the country must return to its Hindu roots, says Prithvi Shrestha, senior journalist with The Kathmandu Post. In an interview on The Gist, Shrestha also makes the […]Read More
KATHMANDU: Some of Nepal’s major news outlets portray India in a more negative light compared to China, says a report by a Kathmandu-based think tank. The Centre for Social Inclusion and Federalism warns that journalistic bias combined with nationalism and lack of information is contributing to this negative portrayal of India. The report titled ‘Geopolitics and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Chinese nationals using Nepalese documents to enter India is part of a much bigger strategic threat from China’s growing presence in the tiny Himalayan nation, says Dr Srikanth Kondapalli, Dean of the School of International Studies and a Professor of China studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Military exercises between the PLA and the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Santosh Sharma Poudel, co-founder of the Nepal Institute for Policy Research and faculty at the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, explains why the ancient Nepal-India relationship is fraying at the edges, and argues that China offers hope to the common Nepali despite the lack of a common language or […]Read More
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