In 2017, a retired R&AW officer conveyed that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was keen to get monarchy restored in Nepal and suggested that I support these efforts.
He added, “I told him that I would start any program after having his darshan only, that’s why, I visited Tirumala to fulfill my oath to the deity at the sacred hill shrine.”
Dr. Tariq Rahman reviews Dr. Ali Raza's Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India, and finds a lively, brilliantly told history of Indian leftists aspiring for a just world under colonial rule
Lubna Jerar Naqvi describes her experience meeting with sixty fellow journalists from Pakistan and India during a workshop on cross-border reporting in Kathmandu. This piece has been republished with permission from Lubna Jerar Naqvi.
Journalists at the week-long workshop discussed issues around cross-border stories and how the relations – or lack thereof – and climate changes affect these areas.