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Nepal: Who Will Tell the People?

2 years ago Wednesday, February 8, 2023telegraphnepal

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: Shift in India’s China Policy?

2 years ago Wednesday, February 8, 2023telegraphnepal

M. R. Josse Former Editor-in-Chief The Rising Nepal, Kathmandu. Nepal Is a major shift in India’s China policy on the anvil, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic? Or, more specifically, will New Delhi henceforth propel its China policy away from its hitherto finely calibrated “not-a-friend, not-a-foe’ stance towards a direction more in tune, or […]

Nepal: Public Sector Management, Governance and Sustainable Human Development

2 years ago Sunday, February 5, 2023telegraphnepal

Book Review Professor Dev Raj Dahal Kathmandu, Nepal The value of sustainable human development appears most distinctly when it is contrasted with the destruction of nature, culture, ethics and politics by the application of abstract economic theories and praxis that prevailed so far. The paradigm of sustainable human development is, in this sense, completely free […]

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

2 years ago Saturday, February 4, 2023telegraphnepal

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: Fifty Years of India’s Foreign Policy

2 years ago Tuesday, January 31, 2023telegraphnepal

M. R. Josse Former Editor-in-Chief The Rising Nepal, Kathmandu. Nepal This is not a traditional book review; it is a critique of the former Indian Foreign Secretary J. N. Dixit‘s preachy, didactic “Across Borders: Fifty Years of India’s Foreign Policy” (Picus Books, New Delhi, 1998). Dixit is lavishly praised for painting “a broad canvas, stretching […]

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