Can India Trade Without the Dollar? The Rupee-Rouble Experiment Faces Its Biggest Test
Archita Gaur The real test of de-dollarisation, therefore, is not whether countries can stop using the dollar, but whether they…
The Summit They Couldn’t Frame: How Foreign Media Covered BRICS 2026
Diksha Bharti For much of the West-led foreign press, the summit that actually took place seemed to matter less than…
Re-Engineering the Maritime Sub-System: The Indian Ocean as a Multi-Node Arena
Hridbina Chatterjee The expansion of BRICS has fundamentally altered the geopolitical geometry of the Indian Ocean Region, transforming it from…
Manufacturing a Crisis: Disinformation, Impersonation, and the Contest Over the BRICS Summit 2026
The central argument is that the disinformation around BRICS 2026 was not spontaneous online noise but an event-anchored…
BRICS 2026: How India Turned a Multilateral Summit into a Bilateral Diplomatic Opportunity
Kumar Satish The BRICS Summit therefore became not only a platform for collective discussions among member countries but also a…
BRICS Summit 2026: India’s Diplomatic Moment in a Divided World
Aayush Pal The reason India's presidency was particularly significant is that despite a deeply divided house and sharp differences between…
Chabahar at a Crossroads: Navigating India’s Eurasian Connectivity
By developing alternative connectivity routes, India is seeking to reduce its dependence on corridors constrained by political adversaries…
From Bishkek to BRICS: India and Iran Deepen Engagement
Anjali Singh The Indian-Iranian relations are especially important for India due to the geopolitical importance of Iran, which serves as…
The Displacement Equation: What Refugee Flow Data Reveals About Conflict, Climate, and the New Geography of Flight
Divyanka Tandon In 2025, for the first time on record, conflict overtook climate as the world's leading driver of forced…
SCO: Between Geopolitical Opportunity and Strategic Contradictions
The SCO, therefore, provides India with an important platform to protect and advance its geopolitical interests in the…