Modi makes a lot of overseas trips, but is he a diplomatic failure with India’s neighbors?

When the Hindu-majority Himalayan neighbor passed a new, secularconstitution on Sunday after 10 years of debate, New Delhi was visibly upset. Instead of welcoming the historic development and congratulating its neighbor, New Delhi merely “noted” it in a terse statement.

This came even after Modi’s emissary dashed to Kathmandu last week to urge politicians there to alter some of the provisions of the new constitution. Two communities in Nepal considered ethnically close to Indians have said that the new provincial boundaries laid out in the charter may result in their political isolation. Violent protests have raged in some parts of Nepal this week.

“Make seven changes to your Constitution: India tells Nepal,” read a headline in the Indian Express newspaper on Wednesday.

In Nepal, citizens began a #BackOffIndia campaign on Twitter to protest India’s intrusion.

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