Chapter 13: Footnote 17

Sudheer Sharma, The Nepal Nexus: An Inside Account of the Maoists, the Durbar and New Delhi, Viking Press, Gurugram, 2019, p. 422. Sharma is the editor-in-chief of Kantipur Daily, Nepal’s most widely read English-language newspaper. I have supplemented my reading of Sharma through long conversations with Nepal’s leading intellectual, the wise and learned Kanak Mani Dixit. To both, my grateful thanks. An alternative perspective is presented by the serving Indian ambassador at the time, Ranjit Rae, in his Kathmandu Dilemma (Penguin/Vintage, Gurugram, 2021), pp. 70-79.