The experiences of rudraksha seed traders demonstrate how lack of Nepali government support and Chinese market power skew trade between the countries.

Former ambassador to Nepal Ranjit Rae's book 'Kathmandu Dilemma: Resetting India-Nepal Ties' stands out for its vision of future ties that go beyond the political relationship.

An excerpt from 'All Roads Lead North: Nepal's Turn to China' book sheds light on how the neighbouring countries moved close to each other in the past few years, with implications for geopolitics.

The Nepali writer's fiction stood out for being the voice of a diasporic culture that sought to coalesce around a language that wasn’t necessarily their own.

A recalibration of the Indian position on Nepal needs to look beyond the conventional lenses of politics and security towards a deeper understanding of the Indo-Nepali relationship.

The maoists alliance with the largest communist bloc was an indication of several consolidating trends in Nepali politics in recent years. What remains to be seen is its viability.

Recounting the Nepali Congress’s attempt to overthrow the Rana government.

Nepalese kings organised massive hunts to get on the good side of the British – hunts that may have been terrible for conservation, but worked diplomatic magic.

As the Doklam stand-off continues, is Nepal set to make another foreign policy shift away from India and towards China, as it did in the 1960s?

On May 27, 1800, Banaras received a visitor who had fled from Kathmandu and who called himself Swami Nirgunanda. Four years later, the very same Nirgunanda, now reverting to his original title of Rana Bahadur Shah, entered Kathmandu and caused the rise of a bloody era of Nepal politics.

To justify a cattle slaughter ban in India, many point to Nepal’s cow protection laws. But history shows the 'Hindu nation' followed an intentionally ambiguous approach to cattle slaughter as an exercise in social realpolitik.

Although it is not history’s job to dabble in ‘what-ifs’, could an alliance between the Gorkhas, the Sikhs and the Marathas have succeeded in ending the East India Company's machinations in the subcontinent?