Puri, Vivek <br/><br/>
India’s foreign policy and the contemporary challenges it faces post Covid-19 

 - IIPA Digest: Building capacity for governance   
 - 4(2), Apr-Jun, 2022: p.26-29 
<br/><br/> This paper throws light on the concept of Independent India’s Foreign Policy, its objectives and the challenges posed by Covid-19 on its bilateral, multilateral and strategic relation vis-a-vis its next door neighbors as well as other nations. It has been witnessed how India has suffered during the pandemic right form economic contraction due to lockdown, supply of medical equipment’s, vaccine diplomacy, border (Galwan) issue and non-traditional threats during and post pandemic. This paper further suggests a way forward with which we can partially address and device a dynamic and global strategy to counter the traditional and non-traditional challenges faced by India’s international relations vis-a-vis foreign policy, where “India, that is Bharat” as a largest democracy in the world plays a role of a constructive, result-oriented and a rule abiding nation with a pragmatic and a reformed multilateralism approach.- Reproduced