Award-winning filmmaker, poet and lyricist Sumathy Ram’s latest musical collaboration, “LoVE (Pyaar),” brings together Afrobeat, Latin music, Indian classical music and Vedic traditions in an international project centered on “love, …
Diplomacy
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Manohar Lal Joins Houston Diaspora Reception, Hindi Diwas Celebration
by SAH Staff Reporter 2 minutes readThe Indian diaspora in Houston hosted a public reception for India’s Minister of Power and Housing and Urban Affairs, Manohar Lal, on September 13, 2026, at India House. The minister …
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The 18th BRICS Summit: De-Dollarization Without Confrontation
by TN Ashokby TN Ashok 5 minutes readThe 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi (September 12–13, 2026) was a defining moment for the Global South. Eleven member states gathered under India’s chairship to adopt the New Delhi …
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|| आ नो भद्राः क्रतवो यन्तु विश्वतःĀ no bhadrāḥ kratavo yantu viśvataḥ ||“Let noble thoughts come to us from every side.” — Rig Veda 1.89.1 India sits with China, Russia, and Iran in BRICS. It sits with the United …
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BRICS Opens a Door to Gulf De-Escalation, But Stops Short of Mediation
by Jayanta Roy Chowdhury 4 minutes readEven as the BRICS summit in New Delhi is winding up, disturbing news that a ship has been hit by a projectile in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, preceded …
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Strengthening the BRICS of Emerging Global Order
by Mohit Anand and Rajesh Mehta 6 minutes readAs India hosted the 18th BRICS leaders’ summit in New Delhi from Sept 12-13, 2026. The grouping is riddled with paradoxes and duality of its purpose. Now is the time for …
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Modi-Xi in New Delhi: BRICS Creates a New Opening for India-China Relations
by Amit Deshmukh 9 minutes readWhen Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in New Delhi for the BRICS Summit, the symbolism was impossible to miss. After nearly seven years, China’s President was back in India. But …
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Opinion: A Dangerous Twist to an Ongoing Mess
by Sridhar Krishnaswami 5 minutes readThe last thing Republicans seeking re-election on November 3 needed was the Iran war extending indefinitely. And this is precisely what has happened as the Houthis of Yemen have started …
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As a host of Global South leaders, ranging from Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping to Indonesia’s Prabowo Subianto and Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed fly into a security gridlocked BRICS …
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BRICS Challenges U.S.-Led Economic Order, but Stops Short of Building a Rival System
by R. Suryamurthy 10 minutes readBRICS leaders on Saturday adopted a broad economic and political declaration challenging unilateral tariffs, sanctions and the governance structure of the global financial system, while stopping short of endorsing a …