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The 2026 BRICS summit in New Delhi should have marked twenty years since Putin first gathered its leaders in a UN hallway. Instead, the Delhi Declaration was so watery that even a hawkish Indian foreign policy voice called it a virtue. Sushant Singh, consulting editor of Caravan magazine and lecturer at Yale, joins me to explain why. He traces how Modi's government, terrified of being seen as anything less than China's peer, blocked de-dollarization, AI cooperation, and climate coordination that would have cost India nothing and helped it directly.