Chandra D. Bhatta

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Foreign Affairs just released a podcast interview with me, on how the Iran war is shaping the post-American world. I’m happy to share the following link (my interview with Kanishk Tharoor begins at the 45.48 mark): foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/how-i…

The Quad is dead. It is dead because great power competition isn’t centered in the Indo-Pacific anymore. It’s shifting to the Eurasian Heartland, where China and Russia are building a fortress of pipelines, railways, and overland trade routes—beyond the reach of the U.S. Navy. India may host a BRICS meeting to offset Pakistan’s renewed visibility. But geography is unforgiving: the Himalayas cut India off from China, leaving it peripheral to Beijing’s continental strategy. That’s the real tragedy—India matters, just not where the game is now being played. scmp.com/news/china/art…

I’m teaching a seminar on great power relations this quarter. The full syllabus is now online. I’ll host a virtual discussion at the end of term so stay tuned for more details. Suggestions for future readings also welcome! michaelmcfaul.substack.com/p/great-power-…

#Nepal | The ancient town of #Madhyapur Thimi, located on the outskirts of #Kathmandu, recently celebrated the vibrant Sindoor Jatra (Vermillion Powder Festival) to welcome the Nepali New Year 2083.

that's what exactly it is !!!

@taranath_bhatt Too early Good night sir.

@Cdbhatta: Good Night Sir 🙏

इन्धन अभावले भारतबाट धमाधम फर्कँदै नेपाली कामदार ekantipur.com/news/2026/04/1…

Nepal turns red to welcome the New Year with the vibrant Sindoor Jatra🇳🇵 32 Khats carrying different Devi-Devtas are taken out in a grand procession, showcasing deep-rooted traditions and devotion. — Sanatan Hi Satya Hai 🚩

#WATCH | Kathmandu, Nepal: The ancient town of Madhyapur Thimi, located on the outskirts of Kathmandu, recently celebrated the vibrant Sindoor Jatra (Vermillion Powder Festival) to welcome the Nepali New Year 2083. (15.04) (Drone shots from Madhyapur Thimi)

I haven’t read the book but these insights from a review of it are worth your time: “We now see [the Soviet Union] as a period of failure and decline; for many of us it has faded into an abstraction. But for those who lived there, it was the only place they had ever known. Every family had suffered directly or indirectly from Stalin’s murderous policies, and from the poverty and famine that accompanied them. But he had led them to beat the Germans. They were justifiably proud of that. They felt proud, too, as their country rose to challenge the US on land, at sea, in space, and in the hearts and minds of those who lived in what was then called the Third World. Once Stalin was gone most Russians were content to get on with their lives in what seemed like a new normality. [...] The Soviet Union set out to create a comprehensive education system which by Khrushchev’s time had transformed a largely illiterate people into one of the best educated in the world, even if the work of its brilliant scientists was disproportionately directed to military purposes. Despite its unrelenting demands for orthodoxy, the Soviet Union produced some of the greatest creative artists of the 20th century: writers such as Pasternak, Grossman, and Akhmatova, composers such as Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and Khachaturyan. In one of his lurches towards openness, Khrushchev sanctioned, in 1962, the publication of Solzhenitsyn’s subversive Gulag novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. In the West many were convinced that the Soviet regime was secure because its people were politically passive, brainwashed into orthodoxy. We make the same mistake about totalitarian regimes today. Soviet people were as capable of thinking for themselves as anyone. They lived in a totalitarian state, so most of them sensibly kept their heads down and got on with their lives. Some discussed in private things which the authorities would have preferred them to leave alone. The bravest challenged the regime in public, but even they were not advocating the adoption of Western liberalism. Andrei Sakharov, the most distinguished of them all, described his views as ‘profoundly socialist’”.

Government calls Nepal a ‘buffer state’. Foreign policy experts disagree kathmandupost.com/national/2026/… via @kathmandupost

Balendra Shah Is on the 2026 TIME100 List share.google/xCZa2o7fmnwTua…

@taranath_bhatt Good morning sir

@Cdbhatta: Good Morning Sir 🙏 Balen Shah has made a good impression. This will stand him in good stead.

China presses Nepal to keep distance from Tibetan and Taiwanese activities kathmandupost.com/national/2026/… via @kathmandupost

Why China's Veto on Hormuz Is the Smartest Move of This Entire War youtu.be/jgrhbYtW5sk?si… via @YouTube

२७ घण्टामा उथलपुथल र राज्य संयन्त्र उदांगिएको वर्ष shilapatra.com/detail/183455

The more we know, the more we get confused !!!

The New Year marks a period of heightened solar intensity in the northern hemisphere that impacts all life on the planet. It is my wish and my blessing that you use this natural support to become an exuberant Life and commit to making yourself into wonderful human being and creating a wonderful world to the extent you can. -Sg #TamilNewYear #Vishu #Bihu #Baisakhi #PanaSankranti #PoilaBoishakh #Vaisakhadi

Warmest New Year wishes & Congratulations to the people of Nepal for having a successful democratic process and a new, youthful government. It’s our wish and blessings they should fulfill the hopes of the people who have been waiting for a focused and dynamic leadership. I hope they get what they are aspiring for and enduring Prosperity. -Sg

#WATCH | Nepal: Visuals of the sunrise from Kathmandu as the country marks its New Year today, as per the Nepali Calendar, Bikram Sambat. With the change in the calendar, the year 2083 BS starts in Nepal.