New Delhi: India and Nepal share strong religious, cultural, socio-economic and political ties that go back centuries. The two countries not only share open borders but there has always been unhindered movement between peoples of the two countries who share civilizational and cultural linkages that have forged relations from thtime immemorial through marriage, kinship and familial bonds. Eminent Scholar, Prof SD Muni appropriately terms that Nepal and India as the "world's closest neighbours."
