NP Upadhyaya: Much to the discomfort of the Indian establishment, the Pakistani people have this time elected a strong nationalist as their new Prime Minister. Cricketer turned political personality, Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi (65) has joined the club of the global rulers, as the News national daily claims, who have studied in the Oxford University in […]

N. P. Upadhyaya, Kathmandu: Indian Academician Brahma Chellany recently suggested his own government in Delhi that “India would do well if she asks for an apology from Nepal for all of its past blunders that New Delhi committed on the tiny Himalayan “sovereign” nation” in the past. Perhaps he was talking of the frightening days and […]

N.P Upadhyaya, Kathmandu: Professor Amartya Kumar Sen is an Indian economist, who since 1972 has taught and worked in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He once wrote that, as far as I recall, in a democracy the citizens enjoy two meals a day and thus do not die of starvation. How far his […]