Tag: #Modi
Articles tagged with #Modi
Demodification of India
Message of Indian elections to Nepal: mixing politics with religion does not work
Modi fever in Motihari
Just across the Nepal border in Bihar, the BJP campaign on a Hindutva platform is in full swing
India, China and Nepal's political crisis
The four-member Chinese delegation after landing in Kathmandu on Sunday. Photo: RSSThe arrival of a senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP)…
India, China and Nepal's political crisis
The four-member Chinese delegation after landing in Kathmandu on Sunday. Photo: RSSThe arrival of a senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP)…
Nepal party reincarnating Hindu monarchy
Photo: @KTnepalLoyal readers will remember royal leaders we have covered in these pages over the past two decades. The uneasy transition to…
Nepal party reincarnating Hindu monarchy
Photo: @KTnepalLoyal readers will remember royal leaders we have covered in these pages over the past two decades. The uneasy transition to…
Opium of the masters
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAIThe country is being battered by a coronavirus surge and hospitals are running out of beds for the seriously sick.…
The India, US, Nepal, China quadrangle
Nepal’s Communist Party leaders must take note of two events that unfolded in India this week: the roaring welcome to US President Donald Trump…
Power plays
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRINothing unites Nepalis more than a dispute with India. So, when India issued its new official map this month…
Political geography of India-Nepal-China ties
Illustration: Diwakar ChettriThe Nepal-China agreements on trade, economy, connectivity and security signed during Chinese President Xi…
Tsu-namo 2.0 and Nepal
Photos: SANDEEP RANA BJP HEADQUARTERPrime Minister Modi is returning to power in India with more confidence will mean that his government will…
India’s new social media politics
Photo: PROJECT SYNDICATE AFPNEW DELHI – What role has social media played in India’s election?Conventional wisdom had it that, in the Indian…
YAM BETWEEN 3 BOULDERS
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIAs a ceremonial head of state, President Bidya Devi Bhandari’s weeklong visit to China that began on Wednesday is…
At ground zero in India’s election heartland
Photo: NARENDRA MODI/TWITTERThe best barometer for public opinion in any new city is the local taxi-driver. Opinionated, blunt and…
Nepal now has to balance not just India and China, but also the West
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIArticle 5 of the 1950 Indo-Nepal Treaty implicitly forbids arms imports directly from third countries. Opposition…
Eminently beneficial for India and Nepal
The Eminent Persons Group (EPG) mandated to review past bilateral treaties between India and Nepal and provide recommendations completed its…
Re-imagining South Asia
The book Another South Asia! with an assertive exclamation mark in its title requires one to pause, and step back to recall what is South Asia,…
Bimstec facelift
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThat the fourth BIMSTEC summit would be declared a “success” was a foregone conclusion because there wasn’t really much…
Sorry state
Diwakar ChettriNow that the leaders of the awkwardly acronymed BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic…
A Modi-fied Oli
Minister of Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali and Indian Ambassador to Nepal Manjeev Singh Puri sends off India PM Narendra Modi, who was in…
Dam it, it's all about the water
As the Kathmandu intelligentsia debates whether New Delhi has realised its mistake of blockading Nepal or not, there is a growing call for Nepal…
Modi’s Himalayan marathon
The Indian prime minister’s visit to Nepal sparks hope, dismay and speculationIndian security personnel in Janakpur on Thursday in preparation…
Janakpur to Janakpur
DRESS REHEARSAL: Indian Ambassador Manjeev Singh Puri is briefed on Wednesday by the pilot of an Indian Air Force helicoper that rehearsed a…
India-Nepal rail diplomacy
PM KP Oli and Indian PM Narenda Modi at a joint press conference after a bilateral meeting at Hyderabad House of New Delhi on Saturday. All…