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Can You Belong to Rival Groups and Still Be Independent? BRICS and India's Multi-Alignment

After hosting the 18th BRICS summit and securing the New Delhi Declaration, India faces renewed debate over whether belonging to non-Western groupings supports or weakens its partnership with the US and its strategic autonomy. An analytical essay argues that BRICS provides India with a crucial multilateral platform to preserve its strategic autonomy amid intensifying US-China and US-Iran rivalries. For UPSC, this highlights…