BS READS: Political rhetoric, Chinese money are drowning out India in Nepal

Even as the Nepalese PM theologises on the nationality of Hindu gods, China is outspending India, buying Indian companies and increasing its cultural presence in Nepal

The consistent anti-India rhetoric in Nepal has picked up considerable steam, spearheaded by none other than Nepalese Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli himself. From calling the ‘Indian virus deadlier than the one from China’, to indulging in cartographic adventurism by steering the passage of a re-drawn map of Nepal in Parliament, including territory that India claims as its own, and a theological exegesis on the nationality of Indian gods – Oli has gone the extra mile in recent months to project himself as an India hawk.

Are these the sign of a temporary discord, or a recurring indication of