United We Blog

Category: Foreign Affairs

  • Nepal-India Relations: Open Secret Diplomacy

    By Bishnu Pathak, PhD Setting: The United Maoist-led Government resigned as of May 4, 2009 and its resignation has been accepted. Almost three weeks back, the senior UML leader, Madhav Kumar Nepal, who failed to win people’s trust in two constituencies he challenged in the last Constituent Assembly (CA) election, was unanimously elected as the…

  • How Maoist-Delhi Relations Soured

    The game in the background. How India played a role in the downfall of the first ever democratically elected Maoist government in Nepal. By Akhilesh Upadhyay KATHMANDU- The turn of events that first led to the sacking and reinstatement of Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal exposed that relations between New Delhi and the Maoists…

  • India and Indians: Friends of Two Different Kinds

    By Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal This article appeared in today’s Op-Ed of The Kathmandu Post. Here is PDF of the page Sometimes, I wonder why the official Nepal-India relationship doesn’t become as friendly and earthy as the down-to-earth friendship I enjoy with some Indians here in Delhi. Why doesn’t the bond between the two…

  • India's Two Big Leagues

    India is currently consumed by its two great passions: cricket and elections By Dinesh Wagle This article first appeared in the Op-Ed page of today’s Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF version of the page. This is a season of fierce competition in India. The two great Indian games are going on and, if the…

  • Gorkhaland Goes BJP

    By Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal This is part of an article that appeared on today’s Op-Ed of the Kahtmandu Post. The other part is here. The complete article in PDF is here. The high pitched movement for the state of Gorkhaland within India by the Nepali-speaking people of the Darjeeling area has reached an…

  • Naya Barshako Suba-Kamana! [Happy New Year 2066!]

    Today is 01 Baishak 2066 Change they can believe in: America’s new approach to public diplomacy. Hillary Clinton issues a New Year message to us: Nepali New Year (Bikram Sambat) Message Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC April 13, 2009 To all those around the world who share common Nepali cultural and linguistic…

  • Soldiers Mutiny in Bangladesh: Lessons for Nepal

    The incident in Bangladesh should cause a serious concern to the policy makers and the senior officers of the uniformed forces in Nepal as well. By Lilu Thapa The recent mutiny of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) Soldiers in Bangladesh has raised a lot of questions in the security arena. It practically seems to have spread…