South Asia

Is Kashmir the largest prison in the world?

N.P. Upadhyaya; Kathmandu: China’s State Counselor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi made a short trip to Pakistan the previous week. Minister Wang’s trip to Pakistan has come close on the heels of the Indian annexation of Kashmir last month August 5 and thus this meet in between the foreign ministers of Pakistan and China must have […]

US President Trump Pressure on India to resolve Kashmir Issue vital!

Kathmandu N.P.Upadhyaya: The US President Donald Trump is a bit different political stuff. It visibly appears that President Trump is not that happy with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Das Modi. Is it that President Trump dislikes Modi’s hug? Could be. Caring little about what the Indian reaction would be, President Trump within a short […]

Dynamic neutrality for Nepal

N. P. Upadhyaya, Kathmandu: Better late than never, the Indian population may have come to senses except the overly influenced Godi media. Nepal and Baby Bhutan have reasons to smile. How Bangladesh feels is not known though. Thanks the internationally acclaimed Time Magazine which has certified that the incumbent Prime Minister of India is the number […]

Strengthening Connectivity in South Asian Region: Needed Out- of- the- Box Thinking

by Professor Madhukar SJB Rana  South Asian Institute of Management (SAIM)  Background: Under British India, it is estimated that, despite absence of industrialization, trade comprised 19% of the sub continent’s GDP in 1948 according to a World Bank study (2007). This historic level of trade connectivity could be achieved because of factors and forces such […]