India, Dec. 4 -- Who would have ever imagined that effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi , who had conquered the hearts and minds of most Nepalese in 2014, would be burnt across Nepal? (There's some consolation though that while the Red Star is over Nepal, Chinese President Xi Jinping's effigies, too, were set on fire in that country last month). The provocation was the first political map of India that was released last month, which depicted the reorganised Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir with Pakistan-occupied Kashmir shown in Jammu & Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan in Ladakh.

The map reportedly depicts the highly-emotive issue in Kathmandu, the disputed Kalapani territory, in India. An Indian foreign office official said, "The ne...