Opinion

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

Opinion | Apple And The Art Of Not Playing Every Game

John Ternus took the stage this year as Apple's new chief executive and did something odd. At the exact moment every rival was racing to prove AI supremacy, he unveiled a foldable iPhone. Samsung had launched the first Galaxy Fold in 2019. Apple's version, the $1,999 iPhone Duo, starting at Rs 3 lakh in India, arrived seven years later, wrapped aro...

Opinion | Growth Is Good. Greed For 10% Is Better

In 1960, the average Japanese citizen earned $519 a year. The average South Korean earned $159 - poorer, per head, than much of sub-Saharan Africa. In 1978, the average Chinese citizen earned $157. None of that is a typo. All three economies that are now held up as growth models in India and emerging economies started from poverty. India left po...

Opinion | Is The Opposition Really A 'Naraaz Fufa'?

Politics, like Indian family gatherings, has its customary characters. There is the enthusiastic cousin, the know-it-all uncle, and, occasionally, the eternally displeased uncle who asks, "But why is this necessary?" Prime Minister Narendra Modi has now given this familiar Indian family character a political identity - the 'naraaz fufa' (Fufaji ...

Opinion | US Can Threaten, Not Dictate: What India's Iran Message Really Means

If India's Bishkek message was a signal to the US, then Pezeshkian's arrival in New Delhi for BRICS will be a defining note: that India's strategic autonomy is not up for debate

Opinion | For Years, Azerbaijan Backed Pak, Snubbed India. Now Comes The U-Turn

Azerbaijan, which had until recently been condemning India's Operation Sindoor and even allowing Kashmir Day events by the Pakistan Embassy, is now slowly rethinking its ties. But why?

Opinion | The Insider's Warning: Why Anthropic Researcher's Resignation Is Big

AI's builders have a problem: everyone fears what happens if they stop, and everyone fears what happens if they don't

Non-Veg Is Not A Treat During Durga Puja. In Bengal, It Is Bhog

In Bengal, Maa Durga does not come as a guest who must be wrapped in holiness. She comes as a daughter returning to her father's house.

Blog | Rakesh Mehta: A Life Spent Building Delhi, A Death No One Saw Coming

Rakesh Mehta was no ordinary bureaucrat. He was a treasure trove of ideas, constantly thinking of solutions to the problems Delhi faced.

Blog | I Lived In Satya Niketan. And I Was Too Young To See What It Did To Us

Sparking switches, falling ceilings, cardboard-partitioned rooms. Satya Niketan had been crumbling for years. I just didn't know when it would collapse.