Can Nepal Speak?: Shiva Tiwari on Great Power Politics and Knowledge Production in Nepal.

Shiva P. Tiwari, the managing editor of the Nepali Journal of Contemporary Studies, speaks to The Nepali Post about Nepali political elites' tendency to drag great powers into Nepal's internal politics and the state of knowledge production in Nepal. We also talk about why China prefers to engage with the Nepali Communists and not the Nepali Congress, the tragedy depicted in Prakash Saput's Pir, and Hindu politics in India and Nepal.    Show recommendation  The Rise and Fall of Communism, by Archie Brown; Chha Maya Chhapakkai, by Dipendra Lama; India that is Bharat, by Jai Sai Deepak;  Sati, by Sujit Mainali