New Delhi, May 15 -- Championing the cause of a more balanced world order, India has intensified its call for a comprehensive overhaul of global governance frameworks, asserting that stagnant multilateral structures have failed to mirror today's geopolitical shifts.

Addressing a BRICS session dedicated to institutional transformation, India highlighted that international bodies established in a bygone era are now faltering under the weight of an interconnected and multipolar world.

India warned that the "effectiveness of global governance and the credibility of multilateralism are under increasing scrutiny," maintaining that reform is "not a matter of choice, but of necessity."

At the heart of India's diplomatic intervention was a dema...