Nepal turns the corner - A talk by Kanak Mani Dixit
Channel: RMRL Chennai
Date: 2018-03-06

Kanak Dixit talks about how to view Nepal. He rejects the idea that it is failing state. He argues that the plausible view is to describe Nepal, a resilient polity finding its balance despite the chicanery of national politicians and unremitting external interventionism.Nepal emerged in 2006 from the under the weight of Maoist killings and state atrocities to finally promulgate a Constitution in September 2015, overcoming the suffocating embrace of Western aid agencies and overt activism of Indian diplomats and intelligence-walas. It has had to contend with the Great Earthquake of 2015 and the Great Blockade of the same year. He uses the experience of reconstruction of post-quake Nepal as a metaphor to understand the resilience of the Himalayan Nation-State.