Express View on Nepal PM’s India visit: Upbeat notes

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The four-day visit by Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” is expected to cement an outreach to Delhi that began last year when Sher Bahadur Deuba was in office. Nepal’s location between India and China has turned it into an arena of geopolitical rivalries, in which the United States is the latest entrant. On the equally treacherous ground of Nepal’s domestic politics, Prachanda has decided that his own future in office is better served, at least for the foreseeable present, by making friends in Delhi than in Beijing. His skilled post-election navigation to become PM saw him join hands...