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Nepal: Who Will Tell the People?

Book Review Professor Dev Raj Dahal Kathmandu, Nepal William Greider divides the book into four parts – the realities of power, people’s response to power, mediating voices and triumph and loss. He begins with a grim note about the decayed condition of American democracy by the atrophy of civic virtue, self-governance and a systemic breakdown […]

Nepal: BBC ‘bombshell’ shakes PM Modi and Indian Regime

N. P. Upadhyaya (Aryal) Kathmandu: Better late than never, the Rastriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS) trained and indoctrinated Indian Prime Minister Modi has been exposed, unexpectedly, to the extreme. The global population who, for several social, religious and political reasons, felt irritated with Indian PM Modi’s inconsistent crusade against a particular set of “religion” have […]

Nepal: Fukuyama’s Prophecy and China’s Democracy

Professor Dr. Shreedhar Gautam Secretary General Nepal Council of World Affairs (NCWA) Nepal Francis Fukuyama made a prophecy after the end of cold war that “World history has reached its final destination with the end of communist empire in Soviet Union”. What he had in mind was that Western type democracy as understood in the […]

China lens on Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and India

Professor P Kharel Kathmandu, Nepal Shedding some of the subtleties known for its diplomatic approach, China under President Xi Jinping has made a series of uncharacteristically candid comments and in-depth reportage seeking to alert Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim against foreign forces trying to use them as geostrategic pawns. while sternly warning India against the United […]

USA and China fail in Nepal ; the high voltage India-Pakistan verbal spat

# “I am more than pleased to have been interviewed first by an Indian television and that I may visit India first”, is what Nepal’s new Prime Minister Prachanda said to an Indian television immediately after he sat on the Prime Ministerial Chair of Nepal. # Prachanda says, “I was first congratulated by the Indian […]