Nepal, Oct. 16 -- In the aftermath of the GenZ protests last month, as new PM Sushila Karki chose the first members of her Council of Ministers, youth collectives urged that it reflect the country's diversity by including women, youth and people from various ethnic and socio-cultural backgrounds.

It took another couple of weeks for Karki to include bureaucrat and public health expert Sangeeta Mishra as Health Minister in her next tranche of ministers. Almost immediately, people dug up a video of Mishra calling herself "Nepali, but a native Indian".

She was telling it like it was: Mishra is a naturalised Nepali citizen. But there was outrage in the ultra-nationalistic cybersphere. Mishra's name was withdrawn from the list of ministers, ...