Nepal is India’s next-door neighbor. But high-level visits from India to the neighboring country have remained infrequent for years now.

When Narendra Modi visited Nepal in 2014, it was the first bilateral visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Nepal in 17 years. The last Indian president to visit Nepal was KR Narayanan in 1997, which makes Pranab Mukherjee’s three-day visit to Nepal from today (November 2) an exercise again in shrinking the gap between the two.

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