An elegy for a new Nepal

This review was supposed to open with a good little gloat about India as “the foreign hand”. Then I re-read the relevant pages of Manjushree Thapa’s new book of essays and reportage on Nepal, and realised that India’s covert role in Nepali affairs amounts to, by and large, shooting itself in the foot. Support the king and the status quo; oops. Support Nepal’s army against the Maoists; oops.

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