"global-south"

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