India, July 18 -- India can help build it by placing the orange economy, educational leadership, media exchange and digital cooperation at the centre of its engagement. The objective is not simply to improve how the Global South is seen

The Global South does not suffer from a shortage of stories. It suffers from a shortage of control over how those stories are framed, circulated and remembered. Its countries are home to most of the world's population, some of its youngest societies, fastest-growing markets, oldest knowledge systems and most inventive responses to scarcity, climate stress, digital exclusion and social inequality. Yet much of the world still encounters the Global South through a narrow lens: conflict, poverty, instability,...