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Rethinking South Asian Regionalism beyond India-Pakistan Tensions > Articles
ARCHIVE/SEARCH > Articles Articles Rethinking South Asian Regionalism beyond India-Pakistan Tensions By Gaurav Bhattarai THE MOST POPULAR and incessantly peculiar logic behind the dysfunction of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is misleadingly simple: India and Pakistan cannot get along, and their rivalry has paralyzed regional co-operation. On the surface, there is considerable truth to this argument.
Nepal’s Calculations Amid India-Pakistan Tensions
Attribution: Gaurav Bhattarai, “Nepal’s Calculations Amid India-Pakistan Tensions,” ORF Issue Brief No. 831, Observer Research Foundation, September 2025. Introduction Four days of ferocious shelling and aerial assaults between India and Pakistan, both of them nuclear powers, which ended with a ceasefire on 10 May 2025, laid bare the growing reliance of modern warfare on advanced technologies like drones, precision-guided munitions, missiles, and fighter jets.
Nepal’s Calculations Amid India-Pakistan Tensions
Attribution: Gaurav Bhattarai, “Nepal’s Calculations Amid India-Pakistan Tensions,” ORF Issue Brief No. 831, Observer Research Foundation, September 2025. Introduction Four days of ferocious shelling and aerial assaults between India and Pakistan, both of them nuclear powers, which ended with a ceasefire on 10 May 2025, laid bare the growing reliance of modern warfare on advanced technologies like drones, precision-guided munitions, missiles, and fighter jets.
Nepal’s Unpopular Former King Has a Weak Hand to Play
ARCHIVE/SEARCH > Articles Articles Nepal’s Unpopular Former King Has a Weak Hand to Play By Gaurav Bhattarai BACK IN the early 2000s, few could have predicted that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would rise to power in India so sturdily or that the BJP’s ideological parent, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), would fuel religious sentiments so widely. At that time, India’s democracy and the Indian National Congress party were virtually inseparable.
Will the King Reclaim His Throne in Nepal?
The narratives regarding the possibility of the return of the monarchy in Nepal are merely sentimental and rhetorical, particularly in light of the rally on 9 March, where thousands of supporters gathered to welcome former King Gyanendra Shah, and the 28 March demonstration that killed two people and injured dozens.
India's Agnipath Scheme and the Impact on Ties with Nepal
Introduction In June 2022, India introduced the Agnipath scheme to reform the recruitment and retirement mechanisms of its armed forces. Under the policy, youth between the ages of 17-and-a-half and 21 years will be recruited to the armed forces for four years of service. The scheme aims to improve the Indian military’s battle preparedness through merit-based recruitment and technology inductions.
Nepal: Bridge or ‘Burden’ to China’s South Asia Ambitions?
Nepal has already built a national consensus on not accepting loans to build Chinese railways and rather prioritize grants (Republica, 2019). Hence, the debt trap doesn’t appear as a challenge in the context of Nepal-China railways. But, expressing suspicion over China’s flagship project, even the United States has cautioned Nepal not to fall into the Chinese ‘debt trap’.
Living with garbage
In 1984, when Shree Krishna Khadgi’s family built their house in Teku, the place was all open space. There were only a handful of other houses and a pristine Bagmati river flowed through the open fields. That is an image difficult to fathom for those who have known Teku as it is now: crowded, dusty, and dirty. “This place was nothing like it used to be. We could drink straight from the river then.
Redefining neutrality
What are the new markers of Nepal’s neutrality when Nepali leaders are redefining Nepal as a bridge between India and China? Since the fall of Rana rule in 1950 (subsequent to Indian independence of 1947 and after the communist takeover of China in 1949) Nepal has witnessed distinctively different political systems and different regimes.
The curious case of the Mustang incident
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