Fuel, food, and dependency: India’s quiet leverage over Nepal’s daily economy

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Geography rarely makes headlines, but in the Himalayas it quietly decides the price of a cooking-gas cylinder, the length of a fuel queue, and sometimes the fate of a government. Nepal is landlocked, hemmed by the Tibetan plateau to the north and India on three other sides, and that simple map explains a great deal about why New Delhi enjoys a kind of practical influence over Kathmandu that no treaty could ever grant outright. It flows not from coercion but from the everyday machinery of supp...

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