Since assuming office as India's prime minister in May, Narendra Modi has been much in demand among the world's great powers. China's foreign minister popped over to Delhi within a month; John Kerry, America's secretary of state, was there this week. A trip to a talkfest in Brazil aside, however, Mr Modi's own travel abroad has been rather parochial-a jaunt to one Himalayan neighbour, tiny Bhutan, in June; and, from August 3rd, he plans another to Nepal. Local they may be, but both trips can be seen in geopolitical terms, as efforts to shore up Indian influence in its own backyard against that of China, the giant to the north.
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