India Has Halted The Everyday Goods Nepal Needs To Survive

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/anupkaphle/india-has-halted-the-everyday-goods-nepal-needs-to-survive#.codpAWl0gO

Nepal has been brought to a standstill after India imposed an “unofficial economic blockade,” according to officials in Kathmandu, following a row over its new constitution.

Hundreds of trucks and tankers carrying everyday supplies have been halted at the Indian border, preventing them from entering Nepal, a landlocked country that has open borders with India to the south, east, and west, and relies on supplies — most importantly food and fuel — coming across.

Nepal saw an end to a decade-long Maoist insurgency in 2006 and abolished its centuries-old monarchy two years later. It spent years since then grappling with writing a new constitution in an attempt to end a period of political drift.

But this country of 27 million had repeatedly failed to reach a consensus over what the document needed to somehow meet the needs of Nepalis whose ideologies range from Maoism to Hindu nationalism. Despite its small size, the country is home to more than 100 ethnic groups and castes, each with a unique culture — and in many cases its own language — and many of whom have been marginalized during the centuries of rule by kings and politicians from mostly higher Hindu castes.

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1. Nepal's new constitution sounds elitist but it is NEPAL's constitution, not India's. The danger

posed by a RW nationalist government (India) once again manifests itself.

When 'ethnic brothers' across the border complain about their place in the neighboring country, the right-wingers in the big country feel they have a right to intervene in the smaller one. The same thing happened (and the same line of backup up trucks) happened in eastern Ukraine.