Articles by Dipak Gyawali
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August 2010 - Analysis
The neocolonial path to power Nepal’s strategy of developing its power sector based on capacity-building to meet the needs of its own commerce and industry is far from perfect, but it is a better long-term bet than Bhutan’s much-touted model. |
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January 2000 - Cover
Cogito ( I'm a South Asian), Ergo Sum! South Asia’s nation-state approach to identity has spawned an introverted polity that clips history to suit short-sighted nationalism. It ignores other ethno-linguistic and religious tapestries that define South Asianhood. |
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April 2001 -
How not to do a South Asian Treaty... A ‘forensic’ deconstruction of the Mahakali Treaty of 1996 between Nepal and India reveals the larger neighbour as bulldozer and the smaller one as hapless and internally divided. Just how not to do an agreement for the sharing of a common resource... On 29 January 1996, after three days of deliberations in Kathmandu, India’s external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee and Nepal’s foreign minister Prakash Chandra Lohani initialled the Mahakali Treaty, known formally as the Treaty between His Majesty’s Government of Nepal and the Government of India Concerning the Integrated Development of the Mahakali River Including Sarada Barrage, Tanakpur Barrage and Pancheswar Project. Immediately, Nepali politicians scrambled to take credit for the treaty. From the former Speaker of Parliament to the General Secretary of the Nepal Communist Party (United Marxist-Leninist), then in opposition, from hard-line Panchayat politicos of yesteryears to hard-boiled bureaucrats, all rushed to claim a share in the glory. But in less than a year, the treaty had fallen into disrepute, and, today, except for those whose names have been directly involved in the preparation of the document, there is scarcely a defender of the Mahakali treaty. |
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June 1999 - Commentary
Voter power NEPAL The first surprise was the turnout. About 65 percent of Nepal's 13.5 million voters cast ballots in the country's general elections held this May. |
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January 1999 - Cover
No one gets anything. Someone gets everything. Everyone gets something. By the time the Ganga winds its way across the north Indian plains and enters Bangladesh in the dry season, there isn't much water left in it. In future there will be even less water. This is not just an international problem between India, Bangaldesh and Nepal. Increasingly, Delhi will have to deal with the conflicting water needs of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal. |
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March 1996 - Analysis
HIGH DAMS FOR ASIA Neo-Gandhian Maoists vs. Nehruvian Stalinists When everyone thought that the day of the large dam was over, the tables turned with a sudden agreement on a massive project on the Indo-Nepal border. Will all of South Asia follow suit, blundering into fiscal haemorrhage and social strife? |
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