India's `hegemony' is a threat to its neighbours

India's "hegemony" poses a threat to its neighbours, says a premier Chinese daily, citing India's "recent provocation on border issues with China" as proof.

In an opinion piece, the People's Daily says, "In recent years, Indians have become more narrow minded and intolerable of outside criticism as nationalism sentiment rises, with some of them even turning to hegemony.

"It can be proved by India's recent provocation on border issues with China.''

The newspaper, which is the mouthpiece of the ruling Communist Party, says that India's hegemony "is a hundred per cent result of British colonialism. Dating back to the era of British India, the country covered a vast territory including present-day India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Bangladesh as well as Nepal.''

A previous victim of colonialism and hegemony, it said, India started dreaming about developing its own hegemony after the British left.

"Obsessed with such mentality, India turned a blind eye to the concessions China had repeatedly made over the disputed border issues, and refused to drop the pretentious airs when dealing with neighbours like Pakistan.''

To bolster its argument, the newspaper says that even Jawaharlal Nehru had once said that "India could not play an inferior role in the world, and it should either be a superpower or disappear.'

Calling the dream of being a superpower held by Indians "impetuous", the daily says, "The dream of superpower is mingled with the thought of hegemony, which places the South Asian giant in an awkward situation and results in repeated failure.

Since India has constantly been under foreign rule, the newspaper said, "the essence for the rise of India lies in how to be an independent country, to learn to solve the complicated ethnic and religious issues, to protect the country from terrorist attacks, to boost economic development as well as to put more efforts on poverty alleviation.''

But India's hegemonic designs face geopolitical limitation. "It has the Himalaya mountain to its north, a natural barrier for northward expansion; it has Pakistan to the west, a neighbour it is always at odds over the disputed border issues,'' the article says.

Blaming India for pursuing a foreign policy of "befriend the far and attack the near", it said, "It engaged in the war separately with China and Pakistan and the resentment still simmers. If India really wants to be a superpower, such a policy is shortsighted and immature.''

If India wants to be a superpower, the daily said, it needs to have "its eyes on relations with neighbours and abandon the recklessness and arrogance as the world is undergoing earthshaking changes.

"For India, the ease of tension with China and Pakistan is the only way to become a superpower.''

It said China is "proactively engaging in negotiations with India for the early settlement of border dispute and India should give a positive response".

Doing Dadgiri, preaching gandhigiri

Doing Dadgiri, presching gandhigiri. This is how Indian are selling Gandhi. If he were alive, he would want to hang himself. May his great soul rest in peace. May our neighbour destroy all the damn dams they have built illegally to kill Nepalese.

When you have such friends, you dont need enemies.

Its India-built illegal dams that are flooding Nepali villages and killing Nepalese people, and now Indian blame Nepal for this. Jo Chor Usko Thulo Shor.
Indian ambassador to Nepal Shiv Shankar Mukherjee met with Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala Tuesday morning at the latter's official residence in Baluwatar and discussed the inundation problems in the Terai.
Nepali lawmakers have been raising concern that Terai districts were inundated during the recent rains due to the embankments constructed by the Indian government along the border.
The villagers in Terai have also demanded that the Nepal government must hold talks with Indian authorities immediately to finalise the flood problems being faced by the Nepalis every monsoon.
The talks between Mukherjee and PM Koirala comes a day after the Bihar chief minister on Monday had asked his prime minister to hold talks with the Nepal government to solve the flood problem in Bihar caused by the rivers from Nepal.
India has built a number of embankments along the border with Nepal to control floods in Bihar while it has opposed the construction of embankments by Nepal to control the flood.
Large plains in Nepal close to the border face inundation due to India-built embankments. .


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Sitaula is a threat


Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula claimed that no agitating group in Terai poses any threat to national integrity. Because he is the greatest threat for this country and its integrity. "None of the agitating groups in Terai, including both the factions of the Jantantric Terai Mukti Morcha, are separatists and that the government can find a negotiated settlement with all of them," he said. The Home Minister who is worthless and cannot protect his own governmental officers, VDC secretaries like Gautam and Pokharel, breifed this to parliamentary Peace Agreement Monitoring Special Committee.

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Mukherjee meet Nepali Foreign minister Sahana Pradhan to discuss flood
It means India will built more dams to kill more Nepalese on Nepal India borders in teh coming days. Indian mentality will never change until these dams kill Indian and those in Delhi themselves, they keep on building dams despite Nepalese protest and continuing killing Nepalese.