By Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada, University of Southampton 24 May 2019 India’s electoral colossus has re-elected Narendra Modi’s BJP party, following the largest democratic exercise in the world. India has united…
By Britta Ohm, Université de Berne 12 May 2019 India votes until May 19, and Western media and opinion seem to be slowly waking up to the dangers faced by…
23 April 2019: In taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chowkidar title, an Indian National Congress (INC) leader has made an extremely upsetting comments against the South Asian…
By Erin Watson-Lynn, University of Western Australia 11 April 2019 The world’s largest democratic election is set to take place in India. Voting will take place in seven phases from…
By Bikram Timilsina, Brisbane 29 August 2017 Nepal’s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has returned home after a 5-day long state visit to India. The coalition partners in Kathmandu –…
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…
By Ashok Sharma, UNSW, Canberra at ADF Academy 29 June 2017 One has 32.9 million Twitter followers; the other has 31 million. When U.S. President Donald Trump met Indian Prime…
By Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan 9 June 2017 On June 3, two days after President Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate accord, Indian…
15Dec16: A Beijing media has urged both India and China to respect Nepal’s “balance policy” instead of forcing the fragile republic to choose one of the two “rising powers” of Asia. China and…
By Ranjit Goswami, Vice-Chancelllor, RK University 25 November 2016 The world is full of stark contrasts; and contrasts present great opportunities for spin doctors. In India, the spectre of black…
27 October 2016: “We love the Hindus. We love India,” pitches the candid US presidential candidate in his latest campaign video. Donald Trump’s latest pro-Hindu election advertisement is reminiscent of…
16 October 2016: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, or one of his staff anyway, has tried a tweet in Nepali language to welcome the prime minister of Nepal, a country…
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 17 September 2016 India “has once again refused to welcome Nepal’s constitution” – a report by nagariknews journalist Surendra Poudel claimed today. According to the Kathmandu-based vernacular…
16 Sept 2016: Editor’s Note: “In the history of our friendship, today is significant day.” This was the first sentence Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi uttered today, following the customary salutations, during…
By Anderson Jeremiah Lecturer in the department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, touched down in the UK to an…
Of the 28 million people that call Nepal home, only 15 million or so live in the turbulent Terai region – that’s already 13 million minus the total population of…
