India’s foreign policy misalignment

Unless it aligns with democracy, India’s “pragmatic” foreign policy in South Asia can only deliver short-term gains.

The dramatic turn of events in Bangladesh has shocked many people. But the story, for the Nepalis, is all too familiar. Nepali political leaders, including former monarchs, have not differed from the deposed Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. All of them have blurred the thin line between democracy and autocracy and between good governance and misrule.