The writer says talk of South Asia should revolve around people-to-people cooperation between different countries. Read more at straitstimes.com.
KATHMANDU - Last week, I was watching on YouTube a video of the performances at the virtual event organised by the South Asia Symphony Foundation, where many South Asian talents got together to perform.
While there are many South Asia-oriented institutions in different academic institutions worldwide, the discussions and publications are just centred around India and Pakistan. There are institutions like the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development that have a knowledge repository of research, but it is time to see how we can make this useful for individuals, businesses and institutions.
Now is the right time to revisit this in the form of a digital currency that can be stored in digital wallets with convertibility protocols determined by the central banks of the respective countries.
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