Word: nepali
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection of Indian and Nepali Art the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, closed yesterday. The Collection spanned four millennia, from 2,000 B.C. to the mid-20th century, and included 300 of the finest examples of sculpture, palm leaf manuscripts, paintings, textiles, and decorative arts outside India...
Prime Minister Nehru righteously castigated Mahendra's behavior as a "setback to democracy." But the leader of the Nepali exiles in Calcutta is not quite as democratic as Nehru might have wished. He is General Subarna Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, a member of Nepal's deposed, autocratic old ruling family. Since last December, under his command, the rebels have mounted dozens of armed attacks on Nepali villages and police posts. Typically, a few score guerrillas will pop out of the jungle, bloodlessly seize a town, run up the Nepali flag with a picture of Subarna, loot the local...
...border between Red-run Tibet and Nepal, and even accepted a splendidly Oriental compromise on the question of who owns Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. Foreign Minister Giri explains that both sides agreed that Chomolongma (the Tibetan name for Everest) is "in China," while Sagar Matha (Nepali for Everest) is "in Nepal." Observed Giri: "Our feeling is that the Chinese have a much higher diplomacy than the Indians...
Indian Whisper. Giri replies that India has only itself to blame for the Red threat, that Nepal would not need Chinese aid if Nehru took action against the Nepali rebels who use Indian territory as a refuge and a training area. Referring to Rebel Chief Subarna, who is half deaf, Giri adds: "If India just whispered in Subarna's good ear, 99% of the raids would stop...
...India has failed to whisper. Katmandu reported that "antinational elements who have their base in India" struck in the biggest attack yet, a four-hour assault on the Nepali border town of Koilabas, and were actually led and directed by an Indian intelligence officer named Sitaram Singh. Even when driven off. Katmandu insisted, the "bandits continued to fire from Indian territory." A government-controlled newspaper in Katmandu charged that India was trying "to do a Cuba" in Nepal. Noting that India had failed to deliver a promised arms shipment. Nepal's Foreign Minister Giri said: "We are not happy...