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Bhaskar Roy




	Bhaskar Roy, who retired recently as a senior government official with decades of national and international experience, is an expert on international relations and Indian strategic interests. In this exclusive column for Sify.com, he says that, to the established Nepali political parties, with royalists in the forefront, the political ascendancy of the Maoists is sacrilege.

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