The personal and the political: from Nepal, reading Prachanda’s visit to India


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Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ of Nepal arrived in New Delhi for a four-day visit on Wednesday. Dahal, who took office in December 2022, will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday for talks that will focus on cooperation in energy, trade, and connectivity. Hours before the PM took off from Kathmandu, President Ram Chandra Poudel gave his assent to a controversial amendment to Nepal’s citizenship law that grants almost instant citizenship — along with guaranteed political rights — to women foreigners married to Nepalis. The amendment, to which former President Bidya Devi Bhandari had declined to assent even...