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Nepal: Above The Din, King Reframes The Debate
Monday, 24 April 2006, 9:44 am | Sanjay Upadhya
King Gyanendra was probably the last person who expected the Seven-Party Alliance (SPA) to jump at his latest olive branch and call off the ever-surging street protests against his direct rule. For one thing, the SPA leaders could not afford to avoid ... More >>
The Unfolding ‘Great Game’ In South Asia
Wednesday, 12 April 2006, 4:36 pm | Sanjay Upadhya
South Asia’s growing geo-strategic profile is being raised several notches by another global player. Japan plans to create a special South Asia department in its Foreign Ministry, designed to coordinate diplomacy with India and monitor China's regional ... More >>
Upadhya: Milosevic’s Defiance In Saddam’s Defense
Monday, 20 March 2006, 12:53 am | Sanjay Upadhya
It turns out that Slobodan Milosevic did much more than simply evade the clutches of justice. The former Yugoslav president set a precedent for peers facing charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. More >>
Sanjay Upadhya: Nepal - A Spring Of Surprises?
Friday, 10 March 2006, 12:24 am | Sanjay Upadhya
With April just around the corner, Nepal’s horizon is spreading out with all kinds of possibilities. The onset of the Nepali New Year in the middle of the month is accompanied with an abiding expectation that the country may finally be able to put ... More >>
Nepal: Maoists Hide More Than They Reveal
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 11:25 am | Sanjay Upadhya
The last two weeks have proved quite hectic for the thinker in Prachanda, the once-reclusive leader of Nepal's Maoist rebels who seems to be enjoying his emergence from the shadows. More >>
Nepal's Year Of Clarity Without Conviction
Friday, 3 February 2006, 3:03 pm | Sanjay Upadhya
A year after seizing full executive powers, King Gyanendra has baffled many in Nepal and abroad by essentially pledging to the stay the course. After a tumultuous year – a qualification opponents, supporters and those indifferent to the royal takeover ... More >>
Nepal: Spine, Head And Heart Of The Matter
Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 11:48 am | Sanjay Upadhya
With the government adamant on holding municipal polls early next month in the face of escalating Maoist attacks and the mainstream parties' intensifying boycott threats, Nepalis are staring squarely into a murky tunnel. More >>
Nepal: A Tale of Two Pillars and Three Poles
Monday, 9 January 2006, 2:36 pm | Sanjay Upadhya
India's declaration last week that it would not renew its transit treaty with Nepal unless "key issues" are resolved at a "higher level" scarcely came as a surprise. Ever since the Dhaka summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation ... More >>
Nepal: Between The Dragon And The Peacock
Monday, 19 December 2005, 10:00 pm | Sanjay Upadhya
Having been upstaged by China at two Asian forums in as many months, strategic thinkers and policy analysts in New Delhi have begun deliberating in public what they surely must have been counseling in private for some time. More >>
Sanjay Upadhya: Nepal Now It’s The Military’s Turn
Monday, 12 December 2005, 11:50 am | Sanjay Upadhya
Judging from King Gyanendra’s latest cabinet reshuffle, the monarch appears unfazed by last month’s 12-point accord reached between Nepal’s mainstream political parties and Maoist rebels in New Delhi. More >>
Nepal: Work In Progress Or Bargaining Chip?
Wednesday, 7 December 2005, 12:55 am | Sanjay Upadhya
The euphoria generated by last month’s agreement between Nepal’s mainstream political parties and Maoist rebels has offered considerable space for candid discussions. Interestingly, the three smallest constituents of the seven-party alliance arrayed ... More >>
Sanjay Upadhya: China’s ‘Nepal Card’?
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 2:44 pm | Sanjay Upadhya
A week that began with the Economist magazine attempting to make sense of China’s emerging robust diplomacy -- aimed at creating what President Hu Jintao calls a “harmonious world” -- ended with one more display of Beijing’s finesse. The Chinese army, according ... More >>
South Asia 101: Democracy And Geopolitics
Monday, 14 November 2005, 1:13 pm | Sanjay Upadhya
Before he flew into Dhaka to attend the much-delayed summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warned of the danger of failed states emerging in the region. Long before he left the Bangladeshi ... More >>
Nepal: No More Muddling In The Middle
Friday, 4 November 2005, 11:56 am | Sanjay Upadhya
Dr. Tulsi Giri, the senior vice-chairman of the government led by King Gyanendra, soured Nepal’s holiday season this week by comparing political parties with the Rana regime that ruled the kingdom with an iron fist for over a century until 1951. More >>
Nepal: Shadows Of The Empire
Friday, 28 October 2005, 9:45 am | Sanjay Upadhya
KEITH Bloomfield, the British ambassador in Kathmandu, has been the most consistently vocal skeptic of King Gyanendra’s attitude toward democracy. Lately, his own has been called into question. Until last month, His Excellency was critical of the royal ... More >>
Revisiting The Past To Revitalize The Present
Monday, 10 October 2005, 1:33 pm | Sanjay Upadhya
NEPALIS are in the midst of their annual holiday season, witnessing a surfeit of contradictions in the political arena. The royal government, which King Gyanendra formed under his leadership after ousting a multiparty coalition on Feb.1 for failing ... More >>
Sanjay Upadhya: Embrace Of Estrangement
Wednesday, 5 October 2005, 10:49 am | Sanjay Upadhya
When a group of prominent Indian politicians arrived in Nepal on a fact-finding mission last week, supporters of the royal government greeted them with volleys of stones and a bevy of black flags. They saw the visit as an overt Indian attempt to bolster ... More >>
Sanjay Upadhya: Turning The Sunni Key – And Fast
Monday, 3 October 2005, 1:15 pm | Sanjay Upadhya
In a sheer travesty of the times, we are discovering that Iraq's ex-Baathists may hold the real key to the country's – and the wider region's – long-term security and stability. How soon the Bush administration -- which has been patronizing the ... More >>
Nepal: Much Ado About Something
Friday, 23 September 2005, 11:35 am | Sanjay Upadhya
A tempest in a teacup? Or a grand conspiracy against democracy? Dr. Tulsi Giri, the senior vice-chairman in the government headed by King Gyanendra, has sparked a furor across the Nepalese political spectrum. An acknowledged straight-talker with pretty ... More >>
Sanjay Upadhya: Nepal - Truce Truculence
Monday, 12 September 2005, 12:11 am | Sanjay Upadhya
The profound skepticism with which the Nepalese government has responded to the Maoist rebels' latest peace overtures would ordinarily appear irresponsible. A nation that has lost over 12,000 lives and countless billions in property over nine years of ... More >>
