India’s Chinese red herring in Nepal

September 14, 2020 12:45 pm

In principle and official pronouncements, India-Nepal relations have always an exemplary brotherly bond. The reality, however, is markedly different. It has remained acrimonious at the core but was always enveloped in a veneer of unparalleled amity. After the current territorial row that plunged bilateral relations to rock bottom, that long-held façade of a special bond has crumbled like a house of cards.