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Nepal: India’s overly stretched ethnic violence may spread in the neighborhood

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” -Niccolo Machiavelli. N. P. Upadhyaya (Aryal) Kathmandu: Ethnic and sectarian violence has already become a regular phenomenon in neighboring India. From North-Eastern Manipur the ethnic/communal violence has approached Haryana-close to New Delhi and likely to […]

Nepal: Islamabad-Beijing- Moscow trilateral alliance is possible in South Asia

“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities, has the power to make you commit atrocities”. -Voltaire. N. P. Upadhyaya (Aryal) Kathmandu: We sincerely apologize for having missed last week in our regular column to mention about what the British Parliamentarians talked about the non-ending India’s Manipur ethnic violence that, as per the […]

Nepal: Interpretations vary on why Dr. Henry Kissinger landed in Beijing

“The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; its that they know so many things that aren’t so.” -Mark Twain.  ####################### N. P. Upadhyaya (Aryal) Kathmandu: Nepali intellectuals remained engrossed in speculating as to why the centenarian US veteran diplomat Dr. Henry Kissinger landed in Beijing, July, 2023. Interpretations varied from […]

Nepal: Indian PM Modi was in France while Manipur was burning

“When Albert Einstein met Charlie Chaplin, Einstein said, “what I most admire about your art, is your universality. You don’t say a word, yet the world understands you! It’s true, replied Chaplin. But your glory is even greater! the whole world admires you, even though they don’t understand a word of what you say”. ########################################################################## […]

The Psychological Basis of Nepalese Foreign Policy

“What a nation perceives also depends upon where its leaders stand on their various policy positions. The three Nepalese statesmen – Prithvi Narayan Shah, Prime Minister Jung Bahadur Rana, and King Mahendra – represented different ages and dissimilar policies—relative isolation, special ties with British India, and diversification respectively”. -Excerpt from the article.  ################################################################################## Professor Dev […]