KATMANDU, Nepal — In a visit that has transfixed this impoverished country, the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, told Nepal’s legislature on Sunday that its effort to write the nation’s Constitution was a sacred process. “You are writing a treatise just like the rishis in the past wrote the Vedas and Upanishads,” Mr. Modi said, referring to Hindu sages and the religious scriptures they wrote.
Nepal Enthralled by Visit of India Premier, Who Hits ‘the Right Notes’
Manjeet Kripalani, Co-founder and Executive Director of Gateway House was quoted in an article in The New York Times on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Nepal. This was the first bilateral visit by an Indian prime minister to Nepal in 17 years