Nepal’s new banknote acts like a mirror. It reflects India’s own habit of drawing maps alone. By updating the map on its currency, Nepal isn’t creating a new problem. It is responding to one India built over years. This changes the usual story
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Brabim Karki is the author of two Novels 'Mayur Albatross' and 'Osin Fisher, and contributor to The Independent, Nikkei Asia, The Globe and Mail, The Hill, South China Morning Post, The Japan Times, The Straits Times including others.
The alarming situation of India has been featured in newspapers across the globe but the western media’s concern about Nepal’s deepening crisis wave is limited to the virus reaching Mount Everest, the world’s tallest peak.
Nepal currently has only 1,600 ICU beds and fewer than 600 ventilators, with just 0.7 doctors attending to 100,000 people, reports claim
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