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Nepal: On what grounds India can be called a democracy?

Arundhati Roy speaks N. P. Upadhyaya (Aryal) Kathmandu: Let’s talk of Arundhati Roy and listen to what she talks of her own nation-India in the recent days and weeks. Our attention has been drawn by a recent Tweet posted by one Indian national, Sandeep Choudhary who claims, quoting Arundhati Roy as saying (sic), “I don’t […]

Nepal: Is India the Policeman of South Asia?

N.P. Upadhyaya (Aryal) Kathmandu: India, the so-called largest democracy is not a democracy at all but instead it is a mobocracy. Mobocracy is defined as “rule by the mob” or “the mob is the ruling class”. buy champix online http://udelldental.com/img/dental-lab/jpg/champix.html no prescription pharmacy This Indian ‘cracy’ more or less fits into what we have been […]

Nepal: Neighborhood Interest and Security Concerns -Part 1

A geopolitical perspective Bhim Nath Baral Lecturer, Department of Political Science Prithvi Narayan Campus, Pokhara. Nepal Abstract: Pedestaled on both descriptive and analytical data acquired from secondary sources, this article analyzes the interests of China and India, Nepal’s immediate neighbors. Their interest is examined from security point of view against the backdrop of increased Sino-Indian […]

Nepal: Gender and Politics; A Feminist Critique of the State= Part 1

Mahendra Sapkota, Ph.D Central Department of Rural Development, Tribhuvan University, Nepal Kabita Dahal Central Department of Gender Studies, Tribhuvan University, Nepal Abstract: The relation between politics and gender is contentious, which is further implied in the feminist critique of the state. This article assumes that the nature of the state is gendered. With this ontological […]