journos writing about this is fine, but who is raising these points and causing mayhem at int’l orgs?! until that happens, it’s as if those treaties never happened.

The Vienna convention also states that you won’t commit Genocide , like Nepal in Madesh .

This is the way India treats a “friend” and next door neighbour ! I wonder how India would have used ( or misused ) its veto if it (God forbid) had a seat in the Security council. Violating international laws and commitments is nothing new for India. It has gone back on its promise that it had made to the Kashmiris in the United Nations more than sixty years back. If Mr Modi can renege on his basic responsibility to protect the lives of people who elected him as Chief Minister of Gujarat and allow thousands to be butchered in cold blood, why will he bother about a little blockade of Nepal put in place by his own vindictive minions in pursuance of his hegemonistic policy of blackmailing and browbeating smaller neighbours ? I am certain the people and leaders of Nepal will find a solution to their difficulties and frustrate the evil designs of their not-so-obvious enemies.

This blockade is one of the most immoral act in modern history, it is simply used as a weapon against the poor people, not the decision makers, I still don’t believe a big respected country like India takes such a small immoral move to implement its policy.. What a shame..

Hey Vikash Kumar, get a life. First of all, you need to get a lesson in English. Clearly, the British weren’t as successful in teaching English as they were in enslaving you. Secondly, I don’t know how you came up with this number of 69% Nepalis being against the constitution. Well, it would be 69% if you included those shameless Biharis/UPiites having dual citizenships in order to loot Nepal. I hope you are not one of them. A huge majority of Nepalis are ok with this constitution, which is not without faults, but leaves ample space for improvement. Let us sort out our problems ourselves.

How about writing an article on violation of international laws in Tarai. Some examples are listed blow
1. Human rights of Madhesis – Violence of security forces
2. Right to peaceful protest
3. Right to Equality – Racial Discrimination
4. Right to own language, dress and culture
5. Right to Citizenship
6. Right to self manage
7. Right to Development

The fact remains that this sitaution solves noone’s problems. India and Nepal have had a long and very respectful relation with each other . Nepalese are welcomed into every fact of Indian life and are often trusted more in India than people from India itself.
However that said this situation needs to be resolved ASAP. The Tharus and the Madhesis form no less than 28% of the population of Nepal and counting other affected groups the new constitution discriminates againt at least 35-40% of the Nepali population as a whole. What needs to be done now is taking the Tharu and Madhesi politicians into confidence and allaying their fears while simultaneously Both India and Nepal should work together to ensure that any Border Blockages by disaffected ethnic groups do not continue.

How about writing an article on violation of international laws in Tarai. Some examples are listed blow
1. Human rights of Madhesis – Violence of security forces
2. Right to peaceful protest
3. Right to Equality – Racial Discrimination
4. Right to own language, dress and culture
5. Right to Citizenship
6. Right to self manage
7. Right to Development

It is sad to know of this current blockade, and it cannot be justified in anyways in which general public suffers more than the corrupted and crooked leaders in Nepal. But we need find how it is caused? and the fact here is of China’s dirty geopolitics for long run with India!! most corrupted leaders like Prachanda working hand in hand with autocrat regime of China. Chinese agents are taking an advantage with the corrupt and narrow minded leaders in Nepal who only think of money money, and Nepalese seems to be unaware of that real situation or just blinded with the new found prosperity in China, which is not going to last forever, as we can realize such impermanence in recent earth quake where things are destroyed in minutes. Nepalese needs to open their eyes to see the real ugly picture of CCP’s oppressive regime, and it’s tactics of cruelty on their own people, regardless of Tibetans, Uigyurs and Mongolians.

Just looking at the surface of the present situation in Nepal is not good, it is foolishness, I think Nepalese needs to open their eyes and look deeper into cunning Chinese politics and it’s dominance in Nepal. One doesn’t have to look far, just look into the streets of Jyatha and Thamel, China town is in place and locals are having hard time to run business in their own locality, just go and make research, ask the locals!!! this indeed shows the true face of Chinese dominance in Nepal.

Concerning the history and friendship of Neighbouring countries of Nepal, CCP China is just a new neighbour, which only begin after the illegal invasion of Tibet in 1959, which is now barely 56 yrs old now, before that there is no strong ties in between China and Nepal, but Nepal’s relationship with India is not just a hundreds but many thousands years old culturally and economically, as it is same with Tibet when Tibet was a sovereign nation, which is clearly written and proved in the history of Nepal and one can see the real proofs in the existing museums in Kathmandu.

India as an old friend had very strong ties with Nepal but they remained very friendly and never tried to create an India town in any place of Nepal unlike the Chinese creating China towns in many parts of the world. I don’t understand why Nepalese don’t understand this reality of Chinese dominance in Nepal! Acting like a child upon this new found friendship is foolishness and pity, it would prove like eating many toffees without knowing the consequences on the teeth which has to chew the main dish? Just look deeper into the history of Tibet, find how China invaded Tibet, Mongolia and Xinjiang? after the invasion of Tibet, China pushed it’s boundary deeper into Western Nepal, without the concerns of Nepal government.

India as an older friend of Nepal should be respected and treated much more than the China, as India deserves it, because Nepal and India are very deeply connected with each other economically and culturally. Trying to create a sense of hatred to India will only work for China’s dirty geopolitics on India, and it will bring nothing good for Nepal and Nepalese living in India, as we all know that sense of hatred is like a fire which only burns to suffer more.
It is sad to know that majority of Nepalese are unaware of cunning Chinese policy, Nepalese need to open their eyes before it is too late!!

However as the saying goes: “More than cherishing the new clothing, I would rather cherish and be remain happy with an old friend”.

To Indra Bahadur:
So you are saying a stronger and bigger country should chock its neighboring country to submission, if it does not agree with its internal affairs? Is that your reasoning? Isn’t that what is called “bullying”? And no one buys the false pretext that any violence in Nepal would pour into India. For what reason would the fire that’s burning in Nepal continue through the border towards India? It never mattered to India during Maoists’ war when they were sheltering the terrorists and their leaders.
What you basically did with your first 2 paragraphs is show the weakness of Nepal, then the 3rd paragraph was about the imperfection in nepalese politics. Then with your 4th and 5th paragraph you showed what India should do to Nepal so that it’s gets what it wants. An attitude of a perfect “bully.”

@bibek It doesn’t inspire confidence in the democracy of the country whose citizen make derogatory comment on his fellow citizens and citizens of the neighbouring country. If you think logically and calmly you would understand that in 21st century every one has equal rights, nobody is slaves of anyone anymore. When you accept all the benefits and concessions(trade , employment opportunities free movement ,aids etc) from another country, it is their right to question and advice when ever its necessary to do so. More over as you rightly pointed out , it concerns the wellbeing of persons or communities of indian origin and definitely Nepal would have also shown concern if Nepali’s or gorkhali’s living in india were to be segregated based on their race and origin but fortunately in our’s constitution , everyone has equal rights. Every one is equal in the eyes of the constitution.

This blockade by India against Nepal is not really about Madeshis/Biharis. It is about asserting India’s hegemony over Nepal. Our Nepali leaders did not listen to South Block when promulgating the constitution, so India is teaching us a lesson for failing to be subservient. India does not recognise the rights of a sovereign and independent Nepal – historically has rarely ever done so. It is policy inherited and maintained from India’s former colonial masters – the white sahibs merely became brown sahibs. Same overbearing attitude. Nepal and Nepalis have to think very carefully on what the status quo of this relationship means for their country’s welfare and prospects in the long term.

Not to be confused is the relation between the people of Nepal and India- they share so much similarities culturally, linguistically and even in appearance (with a lot of ethnic groups) that an unfamiliar person would not be able to tell them some of them apart. There is a lot of warmth and goodwill between the people of the two countries and though the politicians of both countries (& China/Pakistan) try their best to whip up sentiment against each other this will not change as the friendship is genuine. Hence the Indian people should think carefully what damage this short sighted economic blockade and the imperialistic attitude their government is adopting towards a small, harmless Nepal is doing to the warm relations between these two peoples.

@tashi…you speak wisdom my dear friend…

Dear Nepali friends

Never have the feeling that Nepalis are having bad name in our Indian society. They are highly regarded. Please let us not have the ill feelings.

“AS YI SOW YE SHALL GROW”During the British raj in India,British did sow the seeds of”Divide & Rule”policy and now India is applying the same strategy as their British colonial master.
Because of that India never had a good and healthy relation with its neighbouring countries like Pakistan/Bangladesh /Sri Lanka/Nepal and others.
And on other hand our beautiful country Nepal,never been govern by the will of the puppet leaders of Nepal.

A sharp difference between our political leaders who claim to represent us and the Nepali people (us) have emerged during this Indian blockade. The Nepali people, us, are willing to go through hardships and other sacrifices due to scarcity of essentials in order to safeguard our nations sovereignty. However our so called leaders are not willing to sacrifice their political gains/position with their Indian masters for the sake of our country. I see this especially in Congress and Maoist leaders (not a fan of any party). Shame. Alas, what low quality ‘leaders’/politicians we have to represent our Nepali nation!

To dear indian frns,

do plz go through the lives surviving by this blockage in Nepal. As an individual, i used to love u people there in, since my childhood i learnt everything like an indian does bcoz the impression of u frn was merely adopted like there is no any differences between us except nationality we used to bear louder and obviously a deep respect was there, even mongolian communities had also started their daily routines as we people used to.

but i m still confuse, why indian government showing this inhumane behaviors towards innocent nepalese, pls. don’t say they havn’t, i m an eye evidence of it.

There is nothing worth achieving or acquiring in the World if you have to make suffer innocent people on the way. We request Madesi leaders to think over this. Please try different approach in stead to deal with those in power in the pursuit of getting demands fulfilled.

UN is keeping quite for such a long period, why international communities snoring while bigger Nations are smashing smaller Nations?

Kathmandu’s ruling elite are out of touch with the deep rooted resentment in the Terai. 42 people have been killed because the ruling politicians thought they could snuffle this anger with force….but concessions and discussions are the only way.
Madhesi were promised states with Madhesi majority in 2007 and now they been distributed amongst States with hill majority…purposefully to snuffle their power. Considering they are almost 50% of Nepals population, create 80% of its food and control the lifeline border of Nepal; the politicians are right to be scared but this also means they are risking a civil war that would obliterate the country…no Terai, no Nepal. Simple

Yes, India always wants to dominate its neighborhood countries such as Nepal, Pakistan and so on. It violated international law directly regardless of its own little name in international stardom. I think, Madhesi is only just a small cause for India but in reality it focused on the independence and sovereignty of Nepal. We need not such type of domination in the name of neighborhood country.