Post the Delhi BRICS Summit: India’s Eurasian Moment and the Test of Multi-Alignment • Dr. Jagannath Panda

Asia Centre will have the pleasure of hosting Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA) at the Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP).

In September 2026, India hosts the BRICS Summit in New Delhi, with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping expected to attend, a major diplomatic moment amid rising global tensions. Delivered in the summit’s immediate aftermath, this lecture will offer a first assessment of what New Delhi achieved, and what the summit revealed about India’s place in a fracturing world order.

India seeks to position itself as a leading voice of the Global South and a bridge between competing power blocs, even as it navigates a fragile thaw with China, an enduring but complicated partnership with Russia, and unprecedented friction with Washington over tariffs tied to its purchases of Russian oil.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿
– Did the BRICS summit strengthen India’s Eurasian position, or expose the limits of its ability to shape a bloc it cannot fully control?
– After Delhi, can India rebalance its relationship with Washington without compromising its partnership with Moscow and its cautious re-engagement with Beijing?