FREIBURGER ZEITGEISTLITERATURE (Satis Shroff)

SAFEGUARDING PEACE BETWEEN INDIA & NEPAL (Satis Shroff) (Aquarelle(c)satisshroff) The British, French, German, Austrian and American government should be urged to safeguard peace between India and Nepal, and not to block the flow of traffic and good from India to Nepal, and vice versa. The Blockade on the Indian side has precipitated a humanitarian crisis in the Himalayan country, which is landlocked, surrounded by China and India. PM Modi has been trying to ignore the Indo-Nepalese issue as an ‘internal’ Nepalese affair, and he does not see the far-reaching implications of his indifference towards Nepal.  The Indian blockade encourages the Maoists to develop closer ties with the other big northern neighbour: China. Perhaps the China card will enable Nepal to be more developed with the help of the Chinese than by the Indians in the south, who even though they have close cultural ties with Nepal, refrain from opening their eyes and insist on a so-called 'internal'...

MOTHER NEPAL: Savvy Schwarzwäldertorte? Nein, a Himalayan Torte (Satis Shroff) It was the Nepalese king from Gorkha Prithvi Narayan Shah (1768) who described his small Himalayan country as a yam between two stones (China via Tibet and India). The Nepalese battled against the Chinese  in 1790 but in 1792 the Chinese retaliated and in the following treaty the Nepalese had to promise not to attack Tibet anymore, and pay a tribute to the Chinese emperor in former Peking. Nepal paid till 1912. Nepal’s borders in those days of the 19 th century stretched from Kashmir to Sikkim and their expansion was a challenge to the East India Company and the Raj. Soon there were disputes over the Terai which led to a war between British India and Nepal. The war ended with the Treaty of Sugauli in 1816 after which the Raj took Sikkim and part of the Terai with the borders of Nepal remaining intact till this day. Some of the land was returned to Nepal in 1858 by the British as a reward fo...