Thanks for the post, you are right, several of us are following events in Nepal. I was hoping we would get involved below the surface, to help build a security force that could resist the Maoists, but we have (probably for good reason) let India take the lead there.
Nepal is India's problem, but it looks like an opportunity for some friendly help. Letting Nepal fall to their version of Shining Path would be a disaster.
there is one more even worse outcome. Chinese communists side with the king and it becomes ground zero for an indo-chinese proxy war. I dont know how the chinese will react to india removing the buffer state that separated the two