The basic premise on which SAARC was founded is clearly showing signs of validation. While shaping the SAARC initiative during the early 1980s, it was assumed that by activating cooperative
India´s Northeast Resurgent
Ethnicity, Insurgency, Governance and Development
by B.G. Verghese
Konark Publishers, Delhi, 1996
475 pages.
This book is a product of some sustained thinking, if not
Colombo has been a traditional friend and New Delhi a friend in need of this strategic yet vulnerable republic, the smallest member of SAARC.
There is no record of when
Kathmandu Valley´s booming economy has attracted plains labour by the tens of thousand.
Kathmandu residents do not need reminding that there is an open border between India and Nepal.