"global-south"

The Iran war has delivered no decisive winner — only a stark reminder of the limits of force, the resilience of states, and the power of perception in modern conflict

India and Brazil have agreed to push bilateral trade beyond USD 20 billion within five years, following talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The discussions centred on critical minerals, security cooperation, and strengthening the collective voice of the Global South.

India has strongly opposed proposals for a new ‘third category’ of UN Security Council membership, arguing it would undermine genuine reform and delay expansion of permanent seats. Both the G4 (India, Japan, Germany, Brazil) and the L.69 group of developing nations rejected the idea.

The high-profile AI Summit comes against the backdrop of India positioning itself as a global hub for digital infrastructure and artificial intelligence

 China welcomed Vladimir Putin’s India visit, stressing that China, Russia and India are key Global South partners whose cooperation supports regional and global stability. Beijing signalled readiness to deepen ties with both countries, noting Putin’s praise for India-China relations and expanding India-Russia economic engagement 

EAM S. Jaishankar urged Global South nations to adopt a multi-pronged strategy for political, diplomatic, and technological cooperation, citing vaccines, digital tools, and AI as areas for collaboration, while also pushing for UN reform and stronger multilateralism.

Left parties welcomed the India-China breakthrough as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping met at the SCO Summit. CPI and CPI(M) hailed the dialogue on border, trade and cultural ties, calling it vital for multipolar world order and Global South unity

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Japan on August 29 for his first annual summit with PM Shigeru Ishiba to strengthen strategic ties, trade, and technology cooperation. The partnership is expected to benefit Africa and the wider Global South through sustainable growth

With global powers chasing competing visions, multipolarity is being shaped more by rivalry, and less by cooperation

By engaging with key African nations, India can lead the Global South and also counter China’s debt-driven influence in the region

As Europe rethinks its security, China stakes a global claim, and the US turns unpredictable, the cinders of the post–World War II order smoulder. What will crystallise remains unclear, but the birth pangs of a new global order are already visible

As New Delhi prepares to take over the presidency of BRICS next year, it needs to do some deft balancing act to make the expanded forum more inclusive, serving as a bridge to a fair and just world rather than an anti-West group

PM Narendra Modi has embarked on a historic 5-nation tour to Ghana, Trinidad & Tobago, Argentina, Brazil, and Namibia to strengthen ties across the Global South and Atlantic, with a focus on diaspora engagement, investment, BRICS cooperation, and multilateral partnerships.

The United States and Britain refused to sign the Paris AI Summit Declaration that called for policies to keep AI “open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy” shows the inherent contradictions in approach

Though overshadowed by wars and the return of Trump, the summit in Brazil raised debates on revitalising multilateralism

Is multilateralism up for its biggest turbulence yet under Trump 2.0, or will his presidency eventually prove all sound and fury?

By dismantling the narratives of anti-West, New Delhi seems to be operationalising its balancing act

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sought to define the G20 Summit around "inclusion of the Global South".

The Global South is flexing political and economic muscles that the ‘developing countries’ and the ‘Third World’ never had

Imperialism today needs to be conceptualised in terms of gratis (one-way transfer of wealth to western nations) plus the threats that it poses to human life and the planet itself