professor arun kumar, yogendra yadav, thank you very much for your time here on bbc.re challenges on the domestic political front as well as on the economic front, but also on the foreign policy front. overto you, samira. yeah, so we want to be able to kick this conversation forward and look at what this election means for india on the global stage. suhasini, i want to start with you. how does this change india's relationship with its neighbours, in particular india and china — rather pakistan and china. all right. i'll get to pakistan and china. but it's clear that the prime minister wants to put the neighbourhood front and centre. with the swearing in expected on sunday, he's already spoken to the prime ministers of bangladesh, nepal, the president of sri lanka. they're all coming. there's some buzz about perhaps the maldives, as well. bhutan is coming, as well. of course, pakistan and china, which have had perhaps the most tense of relationships with india in the last two terms of mr modi, are not on that invited list. but there is a sense that going into this new