Contents: 1. China's growing pace in Nepal a threat to India: Nepal's policy options between principle and pragmatism/Dasarathi Bhuiyan. 2. Challenges and strategies: rethinking Indian foreign policy in a new century/M. Shafi Bhat. 3. Foreign policy in Narendra Modi/Sudhansubala Das. 4. Internal conflicts in Nepal and its ramifications for India/Bagisha Suman and Prashant Kumar. 5. India's act easy policy and Indo-Japan relations: a new strategic dyad/Anish V R ...