Edited by Manoj Kewalramani, Anushka Saxena and Amit Kumar

Through this compendium, we hope to present some of these good ideas, worked on by brilliant young scholars and sandpapered by a distinguished network of mentors. We feel especially proud presenting this compendium also because it is a product of the proceedings of the very first year of the NASC Fellowship (2023-24). The papers included herein, thoroughly unriddle the Middle Kingdom across a range of issues, and have gone through many rigorous rounds of mentor and peer review over the course of a year.