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Madan Kumar Bhattarai

Bhattarai is a former foreign secretary. He also served as the foreign affairs advisor to President Bidya Devi Bhandari during her first stint.
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Friendly Response to Scholastic Comments on My Review of Nepal’s Foreign Policy Lecture

Published On: July 3, 2022 06:00 AM NPT By: Madan Kumar Bhattarai

After reading the learned comments by a legal expert of eminence on a wide-ranging area of international law, Professor Dr. Surya Prasad Subedi, to our rather cursory and humble observations made on June 21 to his inaugural address for Professor Yadunath Khanal Lecture delivered on June 7, 2022 in the prestigious Myrepublica on June 30, I am in the proverbial fix of what to say or respond to. Just days after the presentation and my layman's response to his stellar address, I was greatly honored to get his very kind and friendly email on June 23, the first such contact after years, in his typically beautiful English in response to my rather casual observations. I thank the prestigious Myrepublica for including my entirely personal observations in their issue.

A Review of Scholar's Perspective on Nepal's Foreign Policy

Published On: June 21, 2022 08:35 AM NPT By: Madan Kumar Bhattarai

In a country where the top guns in politics have frequently made fake promises of making Nepal another Switzerland or Singapore, Professor Surya Prasad Subedi's addition of Austria and the Netherlands as Nepal's likely transformation spots and even Kathmandu taking the place of London as the center of international arbitration and other legal counseling is quite optimistic and futuristic, if not utopia or one more fake dream to be sold.

Glimpses of the 50s, 60s and 90s

Published On: August 13, 2020 09:00 AM NPT By: Madan Kumar Bhattarai

Yog Prasad Upadhyay’s My Life &Time: An Autobiography came out on February 26, his 94th birthday. Upadhyay is a person of several envious strands though known more as a political figure during at least three periods of recent political history of Nepal. These include 1951 democratic political movement, post-1960 systemic political change after dissolution of parliamentary system, and most recently the 1990 people’s movement restoring multiparty order. He is a man of stellar qualities and determination that he showed in plenty both as a bureaucrat and during his clandestine movement from Nepal to India after the 1960 political change.

Xi's visit: an important milestone in the annals of bilateral ties

Published On: October 12, 2019 11:42 AM NPT By: Madan Kumar Bhattarai

Chinese President Xi Jinping is paying a state visit to Nepal today and tomorrow. The visit of the Chinese head of the state to Nepal is taking place after a gap of 23 years. Jiang Zemin (who celebrated his 93rd birthday two months ago) was the last Chinese president to visit Kathmandu. President Jiang is taken as the third but the first successful Chinese leader promoted by paramount leader Deng Xiaoping.