Debunking the big brother myth
The pettiness in India’s narrative is blaring and the puerility of the world’s largest democracy is becoming glaringly pronounced.
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Border Disputes Between India and Nepal: Will India Act as a Responsible Rising Power?
India and Nepal’s enduring border disputes have repeatedly provoked nationalist movements and protests in Nepal and alienated Nepal from India. Resolving the disputes through cooperative rather than coercive measures will be critical for India’s ambition to become a “responsible” rising power.
India’s internecine fronts
A tempest is brewing for India. While the entire world is reeling from the most intractable crisis in recent human history, India’s other woes are mounting. A toxic mix of misfortune, vengeful external interests and its hegemonic hubris coupled with strategic myopia is proving to be a combustible recipe. As a result, India today fights on multiple fronts.
Lipulekh and Nepal government’s lack of institutional memory
What a state manages to achieve in a bilateral or multilateral negotiation depends very much on its institutional memory. Institutional memory here refers to what a negotiating state presents as statistical and subjective evidence during a negotiation process.
Please refrain from “activities” within our territory, Nepal tells India
9 May 2020 I Kathmandu has once again called on India to “to refrain from carrying out any activity inside the territory of Nepal”. Nepal’s latest discontent comes after its…
World’s largest democracy is about to stage the biggest peacetime repatriation
India’s Ministry of Civil Aviation (MOCA) and Department of Military Affairs (DMA) are set to stage what is being dubbed the greatest peacetime repatriation exercise.
Nepalese man preparing to send “corona missile” to infect Indians, TV channel claims
A “Nepalese citizen” is trying to smuggle dozens of COVID-19 positive patients across the international border to infect Indian people with coronavirus, a private television channel in India has claimed.
Why Modi’s India has become a dangerous place for Muslims
Priya Chacko, University of Adelaide and Ruchira Talukdar, University of Technology Sydney Last week, India’s capital, New Delhi, experienced its worst communal violence targeting a religious minority in more than…
King Gyanendra lost his throne after refusing to make Nepal “like Bhutan”: report
By Ram Khatry 11 February 2020 A recent report by BBC Nepali makes a strong indication that India played a critical role in the fall of Nepal’s constitutional monarchy because…
India’s plan to identify ‘illegal immigrants’ could get some Muslims declared ‘foreign’
By Haimanti Roy, University of Dayton 9 December 2019 The Indian government will soon ask its 870 million voting-age citizens for documentation that they are legal citizens with…
KP Oli’s “aggressive tone” stuns India, suspects Chinese influence
19 November 2019 I India is rather surprised at Nepal’s unusually “aggressive tone” on the disputed Kalapani region, website of a popular Hindi-language newspaper reports. Last weekend, Prime Minister KP…
Dr Gobinda KC’s letter to PM Modi: “citizens of all nation states have dignity and self-respect”
13 November 2019 I Nepal’s repeat hunger-striker Dr Gobinda KC has penned an open letter to Indian prime minister Narendra Modi as he ended his 17th hunger strike yesterday. In…
An Indian perspective on the Poland climate meeting: Not much help for the world’s poor and vulnerable
By Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan 19 December 2018 The international climate change conference that concluded in Katowice, Poland on Dec. 15 had limited ambitions and expectations – especially compared…
Will an ambitious Chinese-built rail line through the Himalayas lead to a debt trap for Nepal?
By Jagannath Adhikari, Curtin University China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has ambitions to reshape the global economy by connecting more than 60 countries across Asia, Europe and Africa through…
Lamb-lunch video of Lord Ganesha hurting “successful example of multiculturalism”, Indian community leaders tell minister
11 September 2017: Protest against a controversial advertisement campaign by Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) further intensified today with nearly two dozen Hindu, Muslim and Sikh community leaders meeting with…
Amid Doklam build-up, Deuba is expected not to mention Lipulekh (Nepal’s very own border dispute with India)
22 August 2017: India and China may be on the brink of a perilous repetition of “1962” amid the Doklam military build-up but expectation in India is that Nepal would…
Minority histories of the Indian national flag
By Sadan Jha, Centre for Social Studies 17 August 2017 This week, India celebrates 70 years of independence. The tricolour flag, perhaps the most tangible and potent symbol of freedom…
How the Partition of India happened – and why its effects are still felt today
By Sarah Ansari, Royal Holloway 10 August 2017 “Partition” – the division of British India into the two separate states of India and Pakistan on August 14-15, 1947 –…
Facebook is fighting social media identity theft in India, but it’s a global problem
By Ritesh Chugh, CQUniversity Australia 2 August 2017 Every Facebook account comes with a profile picture, but how can we prevent these often personal photos from being stolen? Facebook has some ideas.…
China-India border dispute a grim sign for stability in Asia
By Nick Bisley, La Trobe University July 27, 2017 Conflict was almost baked into Asia’s post-1945 international order. Taiwan’s contested status following the communist victory in China’s civil…
