Few bad people are enough to ruin a lot of good people. This is what exactly happens in conflicts between nations. For example, US invaded Iraq, but it was not because every US citizen wanted to go for that. There were few bad people, motivated by their vested interests, who plotted all the series of fake stories, who influenced intelligence, who argued aggressively before the whole world displaying the fake threat from WMD. They were successful to cross over the US barricade meant for stopping misuse of their military power and they were successful to win majority of their congress votes which allowed them to go for the war - now we are witnessing the result of their success. Between India and Nepal, I think the same principal is working right now. India can/will never try to annex Nepal as it did with Sikkim. Whoever thinks and argues like that, I believe, they do not fully understand the dynamics of current world. Indians know better than us that by doing so it might put themselve into huge trouble. However, I do not expect indians will give up playing games in nepalese politics and economy, because there is a certain group of people in indian beaurocracy whose career is built up on Nepal. These people do not want to end their career or turn into a low profile officer by limiting the scope of their expertise and experience. Just notice how ShyamSharan was able to get big leap in his promotion immediately after his tenure as an ambassador to Nepal was over; how KV Rajan, SD Muni, Ashok Mehta etc. and company are getting high profile consultation jobs from indian foreign ministry based on their association with nepalese politics. These are the people trying always very hard to involve India into Nepal as much as possible, which must be for their vested interests. In turn of that, India would be making some benefits through treaties, mostly intended to milking from nepalese water resources and human resources. However, I think, India is not making a good judgement on chosing right approach to cultivate those benefits. For India, a prosperous, stable and sovereign Nepal would be much more helpful than a weak and troubled Nepal. Our unfortunate is that few of powerful guys in indian beaurocracy are not yet ready to recognize this positive swath. They will keep hindering Nepal for several years in future and nepalese will keep on having anti-Indian centiments stronger than before.