New Delhi, May 22 -- India-Nepal relations have taken a sudden dip with angry rhetoric against Indian actions filling the public discourse in Nepal. Nepal released a new political map and Nepalese Prime Minister K P Oli had harsh words to say about India in the Nepalese Parliament. India responded to the new Nepalese map with an uncharacteristically strong statement. An Indian official spokesperson described Nepal's new political map as an "artificial enlargement of territorial claims" and called on Kathmandu to refrain from "unjustified cartographic assertion".

What is the Kalapani issue that has roiled relations between India and Nepal at a time when the two countries are in the midst of a surging COVID-19 pandemic?

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