As India prepares to host the 18th BRICS Summit, a foreign affairs expert said New Delhi is pushing a decentralised development agenda focused on agriculture, startups, climate finance and AI.
As India prepares to host the BRICS Summit, the article traces New Delhi’s shift from seeking reform in global institutions to offering scalable solutions in finance, digital public infrastructure, health cooperation and resilience.
The 18th BRICS Leaders Summit in New Delhi has sharply increased demand for luxury hotels, with several properties fully booked and room rates rising significantly.
The article examines uncertainty over Xi Jinping’s attendance at the Delhi BRICS summit and discusses a potential meeting between the Chinese, Russian and US leaders.
An analysis of India’s role in BRICS and its use of the bloc to advance strategic autonomy amid major-power rivalry.
The expanded BRICS+ bloc has a larger share of global GDP and strong intra-trade, but internal political divisions and India’s import dependence remain key challenges.
BRICS is discussing a common cross-border payments system, but India’s participation would require reconciling RBI data-localisation rules and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act.
India is hosting the BRICS summit in New Delhi on 12–13 September, but Bangladesh’s foreign minister declined to confirm whether Prime Minister Tarique Rahman will attend.
Russia said 90% of payments with BRICS countries are now settled in national currencies, while rejecting claims that BRICS is an anti-Western bloc.
