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16th Lokshabha Election India, 2019. Image via Wikimedia Commons by Pradipguhilote123. (CC BY-SA 4.0.) This story was written by Akhilesh Upadhyay and published in Nepali Times. An edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Nepal and India are both Hindu-majority countries, but there is a difference between the right-wing Hindutva nationalism playing out in India’s ongoing elections and the Hindu faith as practised in Nepal. Most Nepalis are too busy trying to get by in hard economic times to be too engrossed with elections across the border. Some do…