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Sep
26
2021
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Olipath, Centrality and Trust Issues: India-Nepal Muddled Neighbourhood Friendship

Olipath, Centrality and Trust Issues: India-Nepal Muddled Neighbourhood Friendship

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Written by : Dr. Anup Shekhar Chakraborty. Photo credit : Shutterstock.com Comrades in Alliance: House of Cards The Left-wing politics in Nepal has obliterated Rajshahi (Monarchy) and associated caste-class social hierarchies, yet Samajwad (Socialism) remained a statist utopia. Nepal’s uniqueness is that it tends to present trends in deviation from global experience. While globally communists and communist ideology are in life-support, and communist parties have dwindled, let alone be in determining political positions, Nepal post-2018 presents a case in contradistinction. In 2018 the electoral alliance of the two main communist parties in Nepal won a nearly two-thirds majority in Parliament.…
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May
27
2021
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Can China Act as an Antidote for SAARC?

Can China Act as an Antidote for SAARC?

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Written by : Pratip Chattopadhyay Photo : shutterstock.com Snippet: SAARC is a dead organisation for mainstream analysis in geopolitical and regional studies which is mostly inspired by realist and liberal approach to international politics. For realists the regional body doesn’t have any regional interest vis-a-vis other regions to knit them together and for the liberals the index of conflict among SAARC member-states exceeds that of cooperation and solidarity. From a constructivist perspective however SAARC still has enough reasons to carve out an identity for itself, particularly at a time when China is behaving as the continental power with its BRI…
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Jan
04
2021
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Dance of the Dragons and the Bromance: Friendships in the Neighbourhood

Dance of the Dragons and the Bromance: Friendships in the Neighbourhood

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Written by : Dr. Anup Shekhar Chakraborty Photo : shutterstock.com Winds of Change: Old Friendship Questioned? What has kept India-Bhutan bromance kindling is Bhutan’s deep social imaginaries of gyagar (holy-land India) linked to the wisdom of the 8th-century Indian Buddhist monk Guru Padmasambhava. Bhutan and its people have diligently stayed true to their religio-cultural links with India- their gyagar neighbour. Over the years, India took its smaller neighbours for granted creating trust deficit among its neighbours and compelled them to wayfind newer friends – Bhutan has mostly been an exception to that trend. India Bhutan camaraderie commemorated 50 years of…
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Jul
19
2020
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Nepal-India Virtual Neighbourhood ‘Halla Gulla’

Nepal-India Virtual Neighbourhood ‘Halla Gulla’

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Written by : Dr. Anup Shekhar Chakraborty, Kolkata Photo credit : Shutterstock.com The Virtual Neighbourhood Virtual communities are places/sites where people meet, and they also are tools; the place-like aspects and tool-like aspects only partially overlap. Cyberspace opens the possibility to disengage the constrictions in the existing notions of neighbours, neighbourhood, and neighbourhood spaces. The virtualization of the neighbourhood effectuates matrixes of alleys 'cyber mohalla’, where much like the bazaar (market), gossip/chattingthe connecting link between people is made. Through such gossip/chatting and group interaction, the raw material for ‘Peoplehood’ (South Asians, Gorkhas/Nepalis, Indians, etc.) is reproduced in the virtual space…
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