Changing Contours of India’s Foreign Policy: Imperatives & Implications

Winner: Deepika Singla Bahadurgarh, Haryana

In the globalizing world it is necessary to form vital links with the neighboring countries. Realizing this every country formulates a foreign policy to reap maximum benefits for itself. Demography, availability of resources, ability to meet rising demand, scientific advancement & technological development and economic strength of a country determines the fundamentals of foreign policy of any country and so does of India’s, thereby maintaining dynamism in the foreign policy.

India is the fifth largest economy in the world and third actually by PPP terms. Thus, its foreign policy has turned over a new leaf ....