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>India, used to being Nepal's big brother and pushing it around, subsequently closed their border with Nepal

No we did not close any border. This is false information.




Dude, I was there. 30 seconds' googling yields citations from Time, the BBC, the NY Times, The Guardian, Wikipedia, and others.

How about the guy whose hands were cut off when he tried to smuggle fuel across the border that wasn't closed?

Or did that also not happen?

EDIT: To be fair, I do remember noting a rather curious difference in tone and content in the reporting about the Nepali constitution's passage and the subsequent border situation between Indian media and everyone else's.


>How about the guy whose hands were cut off when he tried to smuggle fuel across the border that wasn't closed?

What? I've never been anywhere near the Nepali border, but have spent enough time in India to know that it's not lawless anarchy. I'll have to ask you for a source on this please.


Quite a few times I've read of mass lynchings in India:

https://www.google.com/search?q=india+lynch+mob


lawless? not at all. police corrupt to unbelievable levels and doing basically what they want in some places? hell yes




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