India, Sept. 23 -- The significance of the recent 18th BRICS Summit under India's presidency lies not only in how it sought to strengthen the grouping's voice in global affairs, but in where it chose to build cooperation.

As BRICS has expanded from its original composition to 11 members, bringing together countries with increasingly diverse political, economic and strategic interests - one enduring question has always come to the fore: how can the grouping remain effective as it becomes larger, more diverse and politically more complex? Its ambition to give the Global South a stronger voice in international affairs remains important, but how can it translate that ambition into meaningful common positions when its members often have diver...