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Trailokya Raj Aryal

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Being Xi

Published On: October 29, 2017 01:30 AM NPT By: Trailokya Raj Aryal

The western press and those influenced by it have a hard time accepting that good leaders do not need to be chosen through a popular vote.

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Just asking

Published On: October 16, 2017 01:30 AM NPT By: Trailokya Raj Aryal

What is it that we, the sovereign and proud people of Nepal want, and how do we go about achieving it?

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Foreign playground

Published On: September 26, 2017 12:30 AM NPT By: Trailokya Raj Aryal

We would do well to realize and accept that there is a consensus among major powers active here to keep Nepal weak and unstable

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On scholarship diplomacy

Published On: August 30, 2017 01:30 AM NPT By: Trailokya Raj Aryal

One simple and cost-effective way to promote our soft power is to establish a competitive Nepal Scholarship Fund under the joint jurisdiction of our foreign and education ministries.

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Dangerous Doklam

Published On: August 13, 2017 12:48 AM NPT By: Trailokya Raj Aryal

All of you reading this already know what is happening in Doklam. So it makes no sense to copy-paste from other news sites on the origin of the conflict. Therefore, this piece will specifically focus on what Nepal should do to save ourselves if the situation turns ugly. And all signs suggest that it will get ugly.

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Over to you, Mr Deuba

Published On: June 7, 2017 12:25 AM NPT By: Trailokya Raj Aryal

Let’s pray Deuba’s stint this time will be different to his previous stints and he will now “act” brilliantly, to make us forget recent Oscar winners

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The Bahun narrative

Published On: May 24, 2017 12:25 AM NPT By: Trailokya Raj Aryal

Caste hierarchy is seen as a Bahun-Chhetri phenomenon, but all societies have caste- and race-based discrimination

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Fact and fiction

Published On: May 15, 2017 12:35 AM NPT By: Trailokya Raj Aryal

OBOR membership is a desperate attempt of Nepali government to establish its nationalist credentials by appearing close to China

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We, the ugly people

Published On: April 29, 2017 12:25 AM NPT By: Trailokya Raj Aryal

Don’t think our smile signifies innocence and happiness. It is only a way to mask our hideous and scheming mind

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Secure together

Published On: April 11, 2017 02:00 AM NPT By: Trailokya Raj Aryal

If India is willing to sell to Nepal the weapons it builds with foreign technology, we have no reason to look elsewhere.

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Will it happen?

Published On: March 20, 2017 12:35 AM NPT By: Trailokya Raj Aryal

PM Dahal is in no position to agree to join China’s OBOR initiative or even for review of the 1960 Nepal-China friendship treaty

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‘America First’ works

Published On: January 31, 2017 12:15 AM NPT By: Trailokya Raj Aryal

Donald Trump has new strategy to make America even more important and powerful in global affairs

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Just another drill

Published On: January 9, 2017 12:25 AM NPT By: Trailokya Raj Aryal

The non- threatening joint exercise with China will send a message that Nepal Army knows what is best for it and that no single power can easily influence it

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Letter to the ex-monarch

Published On: December 24, 2016 12:25 AM NPT By: Trailokya Raj Aryal

The ex-king needs to spend some of his money to establish research centers and think-tanks. That will make people take him more seriously

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Why Trump won

Published On: November 10, 2016 12:25 AM NPT By: Trailokya Raj Aryal

Trump’s victory shows race, religion and language are very much part of politics, no matter how seemingly liberal a country is portrays itself

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The trilateral chimera

Published On: October 29, 2016 12:25 AM NPT By: Trailokya Raj Aryal

There is a problem with the idea of trilateral cooperation, a term that is widely used here but is poorly understood

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It’s India, stupid

Published On: September 13, 2016 11:45 PM NPT By: Trailokya Raj Aryal

China backed Oli government with the hope that the alliance between the two powerful leftist parties would counter Indian influence in Nepal

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Geopolitics of poverty

Published On: August 11, 2016 12:35 AM NPT By: Trailokya Raj Aryal

Of course, we have a lot to blame ourselves for endemic poverty but could it be that we are poor because our neighbors want us poor and dependent?

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Mining for trouble?

Published On: July 6, 2016 12:25 AM NPT By: Trailokya Raj Aryal

Will we be mining happiness or will these recently discovered mines add to our collective misery?

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