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 BP Koirala, India and Communists
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Posted on 02-12-07 4:22 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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Excerpts from:
http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/07/29/stories/13290171.htm

Permanent rebellion: The story of B.P. Koirala

B.P. Koirala came of age while in exile in India. He first went to prison fighting for the freedom of a country not his own. He struck close friendships with Indian politicians. Jayaprakash Narayan and Jawaharlal Nehru were to him like big brothers. But after his return to Nepal, India itself reappeared as Big Brother. As Home Minister and Prime Minister, writes Koirala, he had to fight against three forces: the royal palace, the land- holding elite, and India. Nehru might have been kind and polite, but his government deeply resented Koirala's independent foreign policy. The Indian ambassador in Kathmandu "believed that he was even greater than the King". One envoy, C.P.N. Singh, so readily threw his weight around that Koirala was constrained to tell a press conference in Benares that "the Indian ambassador wishes that our country be like his district board, and he regards himself as chairman of that district board". Once, in New York, V. K. Krishna Menon asked Koirala, a sovereign Prime Minister himself, to accompany him to the airport to receive Nehru, a gesture that would tell all the world that Nepal wished to be seen as a client state of India. Naturally he declined, but the wound festered: 20 years later he mentioned the incident in his memoirs, as an example of how "they (the Indians) just did not understand clean diplomacy."

B.P. provides a superb, if chilling, description of the lifestyle of those celebrated fighters for the world's poor, the Chinese Communists. In Beijing, Mao Zedong and Chou En-Lai stayed in lakeside palaces in the former emperor's grounds, their dwellings marked by great marble staircases and wall-to-wall carpeting. "The grandeur amidst which the Chinese leaders were living", remarks Koirala, "could not have been matched by any ruler of a capitalist state". The visitor was allowed to joy ride in Mao's personal train, with its well-appointed bedroom and its porcelain bath-tub. Koirala, like China's Chairman, spent his time watching the countryside from the living room, this a large hall with glass walls and a glass roof, with "a library, a table for playing cards, a chessboard, and waiters serving tea. Also, a sofa and revolving chairs."
 
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As the saying goes, whoever makes it to power in any of India's neighbors ends up loathing the same India they promised to work closely with. Other examples: Bhutto, Bandaranaike etc.

One can only hope that with an economically resurgent India, any remaining hangovers of the Raj will one day fade from minds of the Indian establishment and a more pragmatic foreign policy will take firm roots in South Block.
 
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Sorry for deviating from the subject...
Just dropped in to say Hi to my dear friend Capt saab:) haven't seen u around..been driving a lot ?
 
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Hey SNDY! How are you? Actually, I have been pounded and hounded by the daily grind:) Finally getting some breathing space .. heh heh. Haven't had to hit the road too much of late - but heard it is going to be a slushy and wet Valentines day in Boston and parts of the northeast so I am glad not to be traveling :) Hope all is well with you and you had an enjoyable weekend.

:)
 
Posted on 02-12-07 6:20 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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SO, What the fu(k BP's so called largest party doing abt it ?
 
Posted on 02-12-07 7:44 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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Cap Had,

I don't see it happening in the near future, at least not until the pseudo-intellectual baffoons nest the South Block.
 
Posted on 02-12-07 10:15 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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GIRIJA AND HIS FRIEND

 
Posted on 02-12-07 10:43 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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captin hadock is chor !!!!!!!!!!
 
Posted on 02-13-07 8:40 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
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Jayamatadi -

Oh yeah? And by the same token, what are you - a dacoit? If you are joking, then tell me I am reacting inappropriately but if you are not then go get a life.
 
Posted on 02-13-07 9:13 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
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jayamatadi,does this laguage suits your level?You had been contributing good to Sajha so far.What happened to you?
Captain Haddock is one of the logical contributor to Sajha.When he posts something ,posts with great determination.
Captain,please do not get discouraged with his comments.Hope.he will realize and correct his statement.
 
Posted on 02-13-07 12:19 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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Jayamatadi,

I feel pity for you. May ur soul rest in peace, forever!!!
 


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