Opinion

Opinion | India-China Are Suddenly Getting Along. But What's On Offer?

After nearly five-years of diplomatic and military freeze post-2020 border clash, China-India relations seem to be turning a corner. It was in August 2025 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited China to attend the SCO Tianjin Summit, marking his first trip to the country since 2018. Now, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited India to attend the B...

Opinion | The 'AIPC' Was Once Congress' Boldest Idea. What Happened To It?

Tharoor, to Chakravarti, to Yaskhi now, the fate of a Congress 'experiment' that started in 2017 will tell you a lot

Analysis | 75 Manifestos For 75 Districts: Akhilesh Yadav's Move For 2027 UP Polls

The Samajwadi Party will break the tradition of releasing a single manifesto for all of Uttar Pradesh ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has put his stamp on a new mantra - "75 manifestos for UP's 75 districts". Virtually taking a leaf out of the UP government's "one district, one product" campaign, the pa...

Opinion | BRICS' Climate Question: Who Gets to Write the Rules?

The New Delhi Declaration puts debt, trade, and technology at the centre of climate politics, and that is where they belong. The most important line in the 2026 BRICS New Delhi Declaration is not about climate alone, but about demanding a say in the rules of the green transition. By calling for a more representative international order and refor...

Let It Stand: America's Deleted Sikh Poster And The Weather Ahead For Migrants

What we should attend to is the untidy sentiment it briefly let slip into daylight, because that sentiment has a home, and it is not confined to Washington.

Opinion | For China, BRICS Is The 'Poster Child' For All Its Grand Ambitions

The grouping offers China something Trump can't easily sanction away

From Situationship To Relationship: It's Happening Inside The NDTV App

The app is the one place left where a publisher still gets to decide what a unit of news is, where volume and signature work can serve each other instead of fighting over the same shrinking sliver of homepage.

Opinion | From Non-Alignment To All-Alignment Towards India: India's Rise

India is no longer merely navigating between competing power blocs. It has emerged as a power that the world now wants to align with. That is the story of the 18th BRICS Summit and of New India's rise on the global stage. It is a conclusion compelled by evidence. Over one weekend at Bharat Mandapam, the leaders of 11 member nations, several of t...

Opinion | India And Russia Go From Resilience To Leverage

The meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Delhi on September 11, on the eve of the 18th BRICS Summit, was significant as an important step towards the forthcoming 24th India-Russia Annual Summit. Coming less than two weeks after their meeting in Bishkek on August 31 on the margins of the Shanghai Co...

BRICS At 20: India Gives Momentum, China And Russia Add Strategic Weight

The 2026 BRICS Summit, hosted by India, marks a potentially significant turning point and a milestone in the evolution of global multilateral decision-making.  PM Modi framed BRICS as entering a "coming of age" phase as it reaches its 20th anniversary, calling for an ambitious agenda for the next two decades on inclusive multilateralism.&nb...

Opinion | Building BRICS In New Delhi

For India as the host nation, chairing the summit tests the core tenet of its modern foreign policy: strategic autonomy.

Opinion | Why India Needs Both BRICS And QUAD For Energy Security

BRICS is potentially the most powerful energy block in the world. No other group comes even closer to it. G20 focuses a lot on energy security, but it is structurally very different. BRICS has more bones and flesh, including a bank, than other such groupings. The area where BRICS stands out like a shining rod is energy security, and so much so t...

Opinion: Deepen, Preserve, Stabilise: India's Balancing, Multi-Alignment BRICS Act

BRICS Summit 2026: Taken together, the talks with Russia, China, and Iran offer a window into how India sees a rapidly changing world and how it intends to navigate it.

Opinion | The Iran-UAE Rivalry, And Why Our BRICS Expectations Need To Be Realistic

The Iran-UAE confrontation has emerged as the most consequential geopolitical stress test for BRICS since its expansion. What was presented as an effort to give greater institutional weight to the Global South has, in 2026, confronted the harder reality of managing deep strategic divergences among a larger and more heterogeneous membership. The cri...

Opinion | When The Feed Braves The Flood

NDTV drops the 24x7 and stakes its next chapter on presence as it inaugurates a new identity

Can India 'Mediate' Between Iran And UAE At BRICS? Gulf Envoy Suggested It Once

At the very start of the Israel-US war on Iran, it was a UAE diplomat who had suggested as much.

Opinion | China, Russia, UAE: What Each Country Wants From BRICS

In the run-up to the summit, a reality check is worthwhile.

Opinion | How Trump Is Doing More For BRICS Than Its Critics Ever Could

By trying to bully BRICS countries into submission, Trump may be giving the grouping the very relevance he is trying to deny

Opinion | BRICS Has Grown Up. Now It Must Behave Like An Adult

The India-China accommodation will be a key driver of the grouping, but a 'non-Western' agenda will work well only if it focuses on ending global conflict as much as on stabilising the global economy

Opinion | 9/11, And The Price Of Fighting Terror For A Quarter Century

Twenty-five years later, 9/11 is more than just a lived memory for those who witnessed it in real time, as I did as a UN official