Commentary

Nepal: Rajendra Mahato is an Indian national? Part-II

N. P. Upadhyaya, Kathmandu: Nepal’s political watchers who have closely monitored Rajendra Mahato’s meteoric rise in Nepali politics remain askance as to how this Indian national who entered Nepal somewhere in the mid-sixties through a fake (it is highly presumed) Nepali citizenship certificate could entrench himself so deep into the national politics that he is almost […]

India dominates Nepal’s new Cabinet

N. P. Upadhyaya; Kathmandu: The next door neighbor (or a nearest enemy of sort so to say) India has now abundant valid and solid political reasons to smile. A cunning smile indeed. The dirty act that India has accomplished in Nepal in the recent days, is sufficient to prove that India is the most dangerous enemy […]

Is Nepal Small?

Professor Anand Aditya, Nepal The absence of a comprehensive survey on self-perception does not allow generalization here at the theoretical level, hut a casual scan of the existing literature of Nepali people’s self-image suggests that they feel small, squeezed in between the elephantine weights of two giants whose geographical mass, economic productivity, military power, and […]

Quad: Will Russia and China back Pakistan to match India?

N. P. Upadhyaya, Kathmandu: It would be wise to put some facts straight. South Asian nation Bangladesh neither has been so far invited nor intends to join the Security Dialogue of the Quad comprising Australia, Japan, India and the United States of America, say regional media sources. Yet some high placed political authorities in Dhaka hint […]

US Afghanistan Pullout: Impact on Middle East Security!

N . P. Upadhyaya, Kathmandu: Pakistan’s top diplomat Foreign Minister S. M. Qureshi brought inadvertently the traditional brotherly Pakistan-Saudi Arabian relations to a nadir when he in the first week of August 2020 made uncommon comments against the Saudi Kingdom which had been exhibiting its continued reluctance in denouncing the Indian regime for the annexation of […]